Comments by "DynamicWorlds" (@dynamicworlds1) on "The Majority Report w/ Sam Seder" channel.

  1. There's just something about guys who self-identity as "nice" 🤮
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  2. The Bible is not appropriate for children. Full stop.
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  3. “the Government of the United States of America is not, in any sense, founded on the Christian religion.” -The Treaty of Tripoli 1796
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  4. Conflating criticism of Israel with antisemitism is what is actually antisemitic.
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  5. A right-winger talking about 'the left wants power' is such projection. More power for those at the top and less for everyone else is what DEFINES right-wing politics.
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  6. There's a word for colonialism brought home. That word is "fascism".
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  7. Honestly, I can't even tell how much of his unhinged ranting is sincere vs a grift so I can't even tell, but I've reached the point where I no longer care. He's only doing harm to the progressive movement at this point, and that and that he cannot be reasoned with at this point are all that matters.
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  8. Unity without justice is called "appeasement" How well did it work last century?
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  9. "More extreme weather of every kind" is what they told us it would be and that is what we see. Anyone who doesn't understand this is lying.
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  10. Picking a marginalized group to target to distract from their involvement in illegal, anti-democratic activities? I wish this was new... -.-
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  11. Everyone who things that is actually far-right and doesn't belong in the party.
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  12. Just the first sentence: "Things need to be particularalized, rather than generalized, as a general rule" said without irony or any indication of awareness, and his audience/cultists eat it up. He's a charlatan quack who (to use his framework) has a messiah complex.
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  13. Seriously, the way he talks about his former patients is consistently horrifying and has been for a very long time!
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  14. Mixed figure, but when he was right, he was right!
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  15. ​ @kyle1235 you mean when Clinton had brought Reagan's neoliberalism into the party and abandoned unions and such? Yeah, we still haven't gotten back to where the party was before that.
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  16. Because she's a white nationalist....because Ms. "Jewish Space Lasers" is a Nazi.
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  17. Didn't just ignore it. Dismantled it!
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  18. Alternatively: toxic masculinity is what an asshole teen boy thinks being a man is, and many never grew out of even well after their hair started going grey.
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  19. The right ALWAYS projects.
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  20. I'm suspicious of anyone ever trying to sell me gold. If it's such a great investment, they should be wanting to buy up as much of it as possible for as low a price as possible without my added demand driving up the price. Doesn't take much thinking for red flags to pop up everywhere.
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  21. It's not legal. It's being done anyways.
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  22. The point of no return seems to have been when Bernie followed through on his promise to support the nominee in 2016. Whatever grip he had on reality slipped right then and he's been wandering ever further from the plot ever since. Idk if its a grift or insanity or if there's even a distinction between the 2 anymore, but he is ever increasingly a liability to the progressive movement at this point.
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  23. He already has. It's called "the hill"
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  24. You really pissed off the racists with that simple observation. 😂
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  25.  @michaelarmijo4112  ah yes, "progressives" who like Steven Crowder and Tim Pool. Drop the BS chud. We know what you are.
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  26. Not just conservative, fascist It was a fascist one. It wasn't even subtle with how close they came to drawing parallels to the Nazis.
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  27. ​ @purplenights1 "nothing I can do about it" Objectively false. You could also learn what's in the vaccines but that would require using your brain for a change.
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  28. It's almost like their outrage has nothing to do with what happened and everything to do with who they can get away with blaming. Too much of the blame is on their hands and suddenly it's "wrong" to even talk about it.
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  29. @John-Paul Hunt Trump is a steriotypical cult leader though and qanon and elements of the Maga movement can absolutely be correctly characterized as cults.
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  30. ​ @Kira1Lawliet we're seeing (in a great many ways) why it's important that EVERYONE get people in Congress to represent them so that no-one's problems get ignored. And yes, that ABSOLUTELY means having youth representation in Congress. How do you not understand this?
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  31. He's already gone full conservative. The only difference would be if he admits it or goes further right than that.
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  32. She's not jaded. She's always been like this. Don't forget she was a Goldwater Republican talking about "super predators" back in the day.
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  33.  @sineadmurtagh943  no, it's not. Legally speaking, the right to seek asylum is protected, and our constitutional rights are generally not limited to citizens but are structured as restrictions on what our government can do, flat out. We're just ignoring our own laws.
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  34.  @seanmatthewking  they don't want to eliminate political conflict. One of the characteristics of Ur-fascism is that life is lived for struggle. They just always want to be on the top of it. Even if they magically got a society of straight, white, conservative/fascist, Christian cismen, they'd just divide along different lines and it'd keep going as long as there are people to divide against each other.
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  35. He'll never admit that because he's ageist against the young.
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  36. ”Never believe that [they] are completely unaware of the absurdity of their replies. They know that their remarks are frivolous, open to challenge. But they are amusing themselves, for it is their adversary who is obliged to use words responsibly, since he believes in words. [They] have the right to play. They even like to play with discourse for, by giving ridiculous reasons, they discredit the seriousness of their interlocutors. They delight in acting in bad faith, since they seek not to persuade by sound argument but to intimidate and disconcert. If you press them too closely, they will abruptly fall silent, loftily indicating by some phrase that the time for argument is past.” -Jean-Paul Sartre (edited to try and keep YouTube from suspiciously censoring it)
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  37. We're talking about self-identifying as the US usage of the term. It's high. It's very high.
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  38. AIPAC needs to be Nuremberged.
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  39. Usually? A neoliberal. Sometimes? A neoliberal that's more bigoted than normal.
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  40. @John-Paul Hunt are you ok? You're not even coherent.
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  41. The talking head let his arrogance go to his head.
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  42. When the US gets a president that cares about international law....so not anytime soon.
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  43. Double irony: the term "toxic masculinity" was created by men's movements, not feminists, but today's "MRA"s have so completely abandoned actually trying to help men in favor of complaining about women that they think terminology from the original form of their own movement is misandrist propaganda and their brains shut down in anger as soon as they hear it, leaving feminists to continue making progress on men's issues without them. The feminist movement has picked up the torch they dropped in their tantrum-throwing so all encompassing that they forgot it was even theirs to begin with.
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  44. Libertarianism: n, 1-the belief that unchecked accumulation and concentration of private economic power will maximize freedom for everyone 2-making a golden calf religion out of the invisible hand of the market (typically with as little understanding of economics as the average Christian has of what is actually in the Bible) 3-dressed up neo-feudalism.
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  45.  @formerdemocrat9972  fun fact: that is a straight-up lie. Among active duty, it's even below 40%
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  46. Justice isn't something inherent to the universe. Like homes, it only exists when we make it.
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  47. Homophobia (as it involves something going up the butt which makes a lot of guys insecure) and other elements of toxic masculinity
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  48. We should force water bottling companies to move to areas getting increased rainfall and forbid them operating in drought-striken areas.
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  49. Chomsky's an anarchist. No room for ring kissing there. Jimmy's going to have to rely on his ever increasingly far-right audience for that bit of ego stroking.
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  50. Which is how we know that it's not weakness but complicity.
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  51.  @LP12576  call a spade a spade. You mean nazbols. Yeah, there are people who believe internally contradictory garbage.
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  52.  Hermann Hemholtz  sorry to hear that (seriously, not just saying that), but I do hope you understand that we were talking about broad trends which affect men disproportionately enough to be statistically significant, not (admittedly genuinely tragic) anecdotes or condemnation of every single man. I hope you find justice and peace for what happened to you.
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  53. Wow, 2/3 replies failed at reading comprehension.
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  54. "Just a joke" uh huh, question: If he's a comedian, why is he never funny?
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  55. Fascism is supposed to not make sense.
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  56. Sue them until the company value is $0 then use eminent domain to nationalize them for free. Take these private railroad companies down permanently one at a time if that's what it takes.
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  57. Reminder; the right has its roots in royalists opposing democratic government itself.
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  58. Not just another religious fucknut, but one who supports violent ethnonationalism while complaining about violent ethnonationalists.
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  59. It's becoming less about him having an audience and more about him having a cult of personality.
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  60.  @patrickvernon2749  wrong. So very wrong.
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  61.  @LP12576  would you prefer "Strasserite" as a specific example? It's a real thing people fall into and something we need to be on the watch for with how fascists like to coopt elements of leftist messaging on economics while they build power. Maybe learn more about history and fascism because if we wait until we're seeing it in the streets regularly, it'll probably be too late.
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  62. Tells us everything we need to know about MSDNC that he won't be.
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  63. Oh yeah, I forgot about that. It's hard to keep track of it all.
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  64. Historians are going to find these couple years really strange.
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  65. "Things need to be particularalized, rather than generalized, as a general rule" Ffs! 😑
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  66. They will only make safety a priority when the costs to their profits (and executive benefit packages) is so expensive that they take it seriously or we start getting serious about slapping executives with criminal charges and throwing them in prison for a long time over things like this. Until investment firms respond to seeing a company be reckless with safety by dumping all their shares in said company, the penalties are not high enough.
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  67. Yup, he's really incredibly ageist.
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  68.  @Will9c  if they get a government contract, guess where they are getting money (aka funding) from, genius
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  69.    he's already moving to put more troops back in Syria to stop the little genocide-enabling favor he did for the far-right leader of Turkey from getting out of hand (like the US loosing control of the nukes we had stationed in the area). Your news source didn't tell you those details, did they?
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  70. Funny thing about rot: it spreads. Throw out the bunch and the barrel it's in.
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  71. 9/11 We've been without those for a long time
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  72. End all gerrymandering
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  73. See that "big government" rhetoric is only brought out to object to the government helping the downtrodden. Everything else has always been fair game.
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  74. ​ @BryanM86 it's not December. Touch grass troll
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  75. For primary choices, Sanders supporters are those who learned from the Obama presidency Warren supporters are those who don't understand how we got to Trump.
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  76. The question is will he keep his job?
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  77. "All that is needed for evil to win..."
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  78. Scientists: How does that help Musk: it protects you from the rioters who want to kill you for destroying the planet and living rich after the next market crash tops the great depression
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  79. ​ @KiltedYaksmen83 THAT is projection.
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  80. Unfortunately, I think you're forgetting the "invade the Hague" act...
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  81. I mean...they tried that once....and then realized the basement they thought it was happening in didn't even exist under that pizza shop.
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  82. ”Never believe that [they] are completely unaware of the absurdity of their replies. They know that their remarks are frivolous, open to challenge. But they are amusing themselves, for it is their adversary who is obliged to use words responsibly, since he believes in words. [They] have the right to play. They even like to play with discourse for, by giving ridiculous reasons, they discredit the seriousness of their interlocutors. They delight in acting in bad faith, since they seek not to persuade by sound argument but to intimidate and disconcert. If you press them too closely, they will abruptly fall silent, loftily indicating by some phrase that the time for argument is past.” -Jean-Paul Sartre (edited to try and keep YouTube from suspiciously censoring it)
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  83.  @mjchakos1  if that's why you voted for him, you just straight up have blood on your hands.
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  84.  @furiousapplesack  I mean, I don't really think he gives a fuck about truth, personally.
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  85. Selective Populism One of the 14 characteristics of Ur-Fascism as described by Umberto Eco And yes, I'm calling Ben a fascist.
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  86. He's technically right, though. We want to pit people who aren't racist against the people spreading and maintaining racism. I somehow don't think that was the groups he was referring to...though, given it's him, maybe that's exactly the conflict he doesn't want to happen.
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  87. Any argument of a constitutional violation being ok because it's a state and not the federal government is invalid because the 14th ammendment says that all the rights the constitution gives you, states have to respect. That argument hasn't been valid since 1868.
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  88. If we tried everyone complicit in that warcrime it would clear out most of Congress. To be clear, I'm counting that as a plus.
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  89. Benny boy wouldn't be who he is if he was affected by saying hypocritical things.
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  90. The question is very simple: Do we trust politicians with the power to tell any citizens "you can't vote"? The answer, of course, is "no"
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  91. The far-right didn't gain power by moving to the center. If you want to move the Overton window, you have to be willing to at least push the boundaries of it. Better still is to move significantly outside of it and defending that position unapologetically (which also has the effect of making everyone between your position and the center of the Overton window into the new moderates). Also, you can't move reachable right wingers while looking weak and afraid of admitting what you really believe.
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  92. Chick-fil-a donates to the GOP so they're going to make sure they won't be blocked from getting government money through contracts, so they "need" to be protected because they push the same homophobia as the GOP. Pretty standard corruption, really.
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  93. Democracy will never be safe as long as the CIA exists. Kennedy knew that. Kennedy was shot.
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  94.  @keirfarnum6811  citizen vs professional wasn't the real cause of the fall of Rome. The professionalization of the army happened long before the peak. Militarily, the fall was related to the privatization of the military (aka mercenaries which may have been more what you had in mind) and the loss of the ability to absorb losses and get right back on its feet. It was also caused by increasing xenophobia and a stalling of the process of ongoing reforms to keep ahead of the flaws in the internal political/social/economic systems (which then left unchecked, rotted the system from the inside out) We are showing lots of signs, though, I agree.
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  95. I've come to a very simple standard on this: Reckless endangerment is already a crime. Your freedom to swing your fist stops at my nose. Thus, if you want to self-isolate in the woods or in your home to avoid the shot, have fun, but you don't have anymore right to spread around a pandemic than you do to drive drunk or wave around a loaded gun in the middle of a crowd for no good reason. It's a very simple and consistent standard. Whether we're talking mask rules or vaccines, if you refuse to not follow basic rules to not endanger the wellbeing of the people around you, we have a lot of jailcells with non-violent offenders that we can make make room in. I really don't give AF. And while we're on the subject, remember that BS where people were responding to employees asking them to please put on a mask by shouting and deliberately coughing on their face that was going viral repeatedly towards the beginning of this. That's assault. If spitting on someone's shirt normally counts as assault, pulling that BS in a pandemic is at least assault and that's not even up for discussion. Self defense and arrests would have been the appropriate responce and shut this BS down early.
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  96.  @kaskus7147  no, he's on the Alex Jones path
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  97. ​ @adamesd3699 that's because it's true of ALL right wingers.
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  98. The advertisers probably don't really want it being covered.
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  99. Question for all the MRAs in the comment section: Why did men's movements stop talking about 'toxic masculinity' (a term that came from men's movements, not feminism) leaving only feminists to discuss that serious issue impacting men while the current MRA movement just whines? Might it be that the current MRA movement is less about helping men than it is about trying to keep women down?
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  100. The right has only 2 insults: 1-Some variation of "dirty commie" 2-projection End of list.
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  101. See also Numbers 31:17-18 (which means exactly what it sounds like it means) to see just how nauseating the form of slavery in the Bible is.
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  102. Joe pretends to be a lot more moderate than he is to try and act as a gateway. Joe is actually a far right bigot. That's why he bahaves the way he does, and why fracking reactionaries need to walk him back to a more moderate position when he starts getting too into the bigotry with them.
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  103. "harrassment" kinda burries the lead when he's being accused of repeated sexual assault of unconscious coworkers
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  104.  @CMA418  no vaccine is 100% effective, the immunocompromised and people who can't take the vaccine exists, and the longer it circulates the more chance it has to mutate into something that bypasses our resistance (through infection and vaccination) putting us right back at square 1. This has been repeated endlessly for a very long time and isn't even touching on the issue of our hospitals being overwhelmed impacting the ability for everyone to count on their being able to access needed medical care. Seriously, considering putting this comment on a note file so I can copypaste it with how sick I'm getting repeating the same damn thing...
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  105.  @iwhxiwbdiqbxjdb  a- nice ad-hominem B-Musk is not working tirelessly to help people without concern for money. He's using his wealth for his own ego. C-you didn't address, at all, the central assertion about Musk's competancy or intellectual diligence So yeah, you're acting like a typical Musk fanboy.
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  106. You're really pissing off the Nazis by pointing this out. Keep it up.👍
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  107. hood off, armband on.
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  108.  @aliamjon2550  just in this segment he's hitting 2. The rejection of modernism. “The Enlightenment, the Age of Reason, is seen as the beginning of modern depravity. In this sense Ur-Fascism can be defined as irrationalism.” 3. The cult of action for action’s sake. “Action being beautiful in itself, it must be taken before, or without, any previous reflection. Thinking is a form of emasculation.” Also: obsession with a plot, cult of heroism and death, viewing life as lived for struggle, contempt for the weak, and preoccupation with feelings of frustration and humiliation. And that's just talking about what's happening here. Tucker is absolutely a fascist.
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  109. Both malignant narcissists, 100%
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  110. Tbf, he's so much worse today than he was even just 5 years ago.
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  111.  @Socialism_on_Roids  I mean, the leftmost portion of his audience is and will continue to be increasingly either driven off or dragged with his cult of personality to the right. It's not possible to both remain an actual leftist(or anything close) and follow him where he's headed indefinitely, no matter how much someone wants to not see what's happening.
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  112. See Germany last century.
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  113. There's a gem of a quote. Horrifying, but valuable.
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  114. WAY more than 33%
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  115.  @TJay-et3iu  considering they can be legally fired in many places for a part of their identity they can't change (so say nothing of the violence and suicide rates), I believe the most appropriate response to you putting emphasis on people loosing their jobs for choosing to promote bigotry against them is uh, go fuck yourself.
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  116. Ew. Why would you pick a label of a conservative not willing to admit to being a conservative?
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  117.  @daha9546  for what part? C-16? The Canadian BAR Association had to come out to correct the information he was spreading there.
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  118. That would be terrorism.
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  119. The 2016 primary had all sorts of rigging including illegally purging voters from the rolls which was plead guilty to in court allong with a pile of other problems and circumstantial evidence for a whole lot more. Every half-way functioning democracy would throw out that election and redo it with only half of what we saw about it. If you saw that the 2016 was legit, you're either incredibly un/misinformed on the facts, or are still thinking like a serf. Election integrity is what seperates citizens from subjects. It is non-negotiable!
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  120. 🎯
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  121.  @aliamjon2550  honestly, most of your subscription list that I can recognize. You're not exactly fooling anyone familiar with big name far right channels that bothers to check.
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  122. This comment was stupid. Dore's dumbfuckery kicked out a whole lot of the squad's power to accomplish something productive, so I'm not surprised her ability to gain anything useful was hampered. You just did the GOP thing of stripping funds from a program and then pointing to it failing.
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  123. ​ @Drownedinblood Nuremberg 2.0
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  124. I'm farily sure whatever he's "adding" counts as littering.
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  125.  @enragedstead  alone? Idk, but counter question? How many people die of HIV alone? Zero Do you see how incredibly fucking stupid that argument is?
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  126.  @captainvonkleist8323  congrats, you just redefined "bigotry" so broadly to include intolerance of Nazism so that it would include opposition to your movement. Really a great job representing your movement. I appriciate it.
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  127. ​ @theradiantdehd3997  No, the problem is the right thinks their edgy shit is in the same category of comedy as someone like George Carlin, but in reality it's in the same category as a 6th grade bully (on a good day) because you don't understand comedy and just wallow in the most immature and unsophisticated sadism. Sitcoms that need laugh tracks to tell people when the jokes happen have a better grasp of comedy than you. It's just pathetic. I love dark humor. I even thoroughly enjoy well-done edgy humor. You're just not funny to anyone who isn't an insecure manchild or a bratty teen trying to quiet their own self-loathing.
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  128. ​ @Freerider93 if she had won, we could be having President Desantis by now.
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  129. "11 A woman[a] should learn in quietness and full submission. 12 I do not permit a woman to teach or to assume authority over a man;[b] she must be quiet." -Timothy 2:11-12 Her book, not mine.
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  130. I love how dishonest you fascists have to be, and how dumb you are to think you're being subtle/"crypto" when it's painfully obvious.
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  131. This is your brain on fascism.
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  132.  @fefe6995  decades of American exceptionalism propaganda
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  133. Excuse my answering the rhetorical question, but it really is because they KNOW it does make a difference.
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  134.  @ColorMatching  was going along with, not disagreeing.
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  135.  @arudegesture  yeah, anyone not knowing who Jimmy is upsets him, and especially if they have status.
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  136. An authoritarian corporatist praising the dictator of a state-capitalist nation? The only surprise I can muster is that of being shocked he would take the mask off and admit the truth.
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  137.  @divasbraidz  well I mean, they manufactured the crisis that is actually happening from both ends so...they're right, just not in that the crisis is fake.
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  138. You're forgetting one possibility: Flagrant dishonesty
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  139. Btw, since the liar won't post it, the most up-to-date numbers for Trump's approval among active military is 38%, down from 46% at the start of his term. Not surprising to anyone who payed attention to how he treated them for a second.
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  140.  @CMA418  also, this equivocation between the self defense against the right and the deadly aggression from the right is disgusting BS.
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  141. MR should have him on more and people need to go subscribe to him.
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  142.  @ponderoustomes9005  how has that been working? How long have we been in Afghanistan?
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  143. Passive income=being a leech It's only really excusable as a way to deal with our country not providing properly for the disabled and retirees, and even then it's a moral compromise, not something to be aspired toward. A good social safety net/floor would remove even that excuse and allow us to really crack down on schemes to make wealth without work.
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  144. Unironically, that would be an improvement.
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  145. Because it is
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  146. Eh, I don't think there's a solid foundation to that "should" claim. People that preferred Shapiro were likely already going to vote for her.
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  147. Remember to report the fascist for misinformation.
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  148. ​ @EdenRose_anoushella learn some basic reading comprehension please
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  149.  @davidstewart1757  first off, Saagar is a cryptofascist (and kinda light on the crypto part, tbh). The fact that he puts on a presentable appearance doesn't change that.
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  150. No, we got to Trump in large part by Obama who was a lot of talk and no conviction. That sounding familiar? It's not that absurd strawman about not getting everything desired. It's about not trusting a right leaning morderate conservative to follow through substantially on anything as she paves the way for a further right-wing demogogue. People don't support Bernie because we believe we'll get everything we want. People suppory Bernie because we believe he'll actually fight for us.
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  151. Capitalism: "you know, if we get our workers to say "Happy Holidays" instead of "Merry Christmas" it will make our customers who celebrate other holidays (like Hanukkah) happier and spend more while still being inclusive to Christians" Faux News: throws an annual hissy fit, breaking from their normal sucking off of capitalist "free" markets to make sure they're not being inclusive.
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  152. The poor generally have far less free time than those of median income due to a number of factors. If you have a problem with public transit being congested you could A-move the costs of improving the system to drivers, because they benefit by reduced commute times because of the lower traffic B-move the costs to businesses (especially those in urban areas) who will economically benefit from the improved infrastructure C-acknowledge that public transit is a public good with a multitude of benefits (dirrect and indirrect) and fund it out of the general budget D-ask business owners to change the work schedules they make so that start times for shifts are more staggered throughout the day E-do several of those options F-fuck over the poor making them waste time and your public transit system as a whole (which will drive more people to commuting by car, which will fuck your traffic situation too) so you can be a classist bootlicker. You chose F. Congrats asswipe, now kindly F-off.
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  153.  @Etaoinshrdlu69  not true. Like, not at all true. You're just repeating talking points you were taught and never questioned.
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  154.  @GlobalWave1  um, your 2nd sentence is a fragment and loaded with a bunch of buzzwords you're not even using quite right, and is built on at least one logical fallacy, and you're not convincing me you know where the actual center of the political spectrum is....and even if all that was fixed, you still just straight-up ignored my pointing out that just saying what amounts to "look spooky far-left people" isn't really going to scare a lot of people left of center. Tl;dr wtf was that excuse for a reply?
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  155. Taxes are not theft. Taxes are what gives your currency the universal demand that creates its exchange value and how you pay your debts to those who labor outside the market economy to make your civilization possible.
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  156. He was always kinda a jackass you needed to take with a big pinch of salt, but the moment Bernie endorced Hillary in 2016 is the moment that knocked him off the tracks. He's been heading further and further towards crazy down ever since and there is no way to stop him. On the upside, he's starting to get so far away from the plot and bleeding off so much leftist support as his audience becomes increasingly fascistic in proportion, that he's finally starting to loose relevance as he drifts into the more fascist circles and out of being a liability to leftist ones. ...and good fucking riddens. Whatever good will he may have earned with his earlier work is long since spent.
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  157. What? No, the Kurds are nearly the exact opposite of Al Quaida. Please research Rojava more.
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  158. Reguarally going out and saying things you know will get you insulted to reinforce your ingroup/outgroup distinctions like you Jimmy Dore fans regurally do is a behavor most associated with cults and how they increase dependancy on the cult. Just pointing out the red flag you just displayed that's showing how you're being wrapped up in the cult of personality Jimmy is creating around himself, intentionally or otherwise.
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  159.  @josiahmccallister3150  the amount of energy and computer parts wasted in "mining" them are absurd and it only has the value it does because of people paying real currency for it. That's why its price is as volatile as it is. Normal/real currencies found their excange value on debt relations, traditionally the debt to the people who work outside the market to make your civilization possible, mediated by the fact that the government of said civilization accepts them as taxes, creating a foundation of universal demand. Cryptocurrencies have nothing like that. They're no more actual money than nfts or stocks which give no voting rights or dividends. They just get to trick people they are because they look like it and people are taught myths about what money is and its origins.
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  160. Rather than an anecdote, I'll point to how consistently conservative dating apps fail. Not our fault no-one wants to date you, bucko.
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  161.  @JosephMetts  wtf are you even talking about?
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  162. It's not even patriotism. It's crass nationalism. They just equivocated the terms because bigoted nationalists wanting to turn back the clock on history starts to sound uncomfortably similar to something else.
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  163.  @whyamimrpink78  ah, trolling here this month pink? Which community were you last in that caught onto you being an empty pathetic troll that led you to switch this time?
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  164.  @aliamjon2550  you're subbed to a bunch of fascists. You don't get to hide behind that one.
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  165. Not as funny as the author, self-describing as objective, and then dying from years of heavy smoking because she associated the self-poisoning with the appearance of intellectualism. I can't think of a better metaphor for her "philosophy"
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  166. Let's be clear, there is a mountain of evidence (from polling to interviews with normal people) showing Bernie's essentially unprecedented appeal with independents and even moderate Republican voters, especially in the rust belt Hillary alienated with her elitism. Even those who disagree with his policy specifics pretty universally say something to the effect of "I don't agree with him on everything, but I believe he believes it and will actually fight for working people, which is more than I can say about anyone else." The image of a "Democrat" in the mind of a Republican-leaning voter is that of a spineless corporatist who will talk out of both sides of their mouth while enacting onerous regulations that they will put in loopholes for the big businesses that pay them off so that all the actual burdon will fall on the small business owner and normal person. Bernie has shown he is able to buck that image. Warren has shown she cannot. Hell, she can't even convince a lot of us on the left that she won't sell out through either greed or lack of spine, so pulling people over? Good fucking luck.
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  167.  @bondjames5874  well he's sure not a leftist.
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  168. ....kinda telling they went through with this after their recent scandal, huh?
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  169.  @RSW552  no, Bernie was the more electable candidate and if not for the pandemic and BLM protests, Biden was on track to loose to Trump. Way to prove you don't understand politics at all though.
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  170. Unironically, rates of psychopathy are remarkably high among CEOs (like 20-25%) and it's a fair assumption that politicians in our system are at least as bad. That's your starting point before you add in political ideologies that, among other things, dehumanize large groups of people (including poor people).
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  171. ​ @nikolamilicevic1040 try reading that again
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  172.  @guacamolekid3899  I will never not appriciate the eagerness of people like you to provide evidence to my claims.
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  173. He lies about everything. The only question is if and what else he might do.
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  174. Right wingers gonna right wing.
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  175. I think the phrase is "seen but not heard"
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  176. Not even joking (well, ok, only half joking, but real question): you can notice a difference???
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  177. Ha! Or Pelosi's or Biden's or Hillary's or McConnell's etc etc etc
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  178. A good starting point could be to just put a huge tax on unoccupied buildings to pressure them into converting unused buildings into something useful. This would also help small businesses with their rent prices.
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  179. The right really has only 2 insults: Some variation of "dirty commie" And projection That's it.
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  180. And yet every "centrist" wanted to pretend the arguments were really about immigration laws.
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  181. Does spreading anti-intellectual rhetoric help the right or left more? Food for thought.
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  182. I don't know her story, but I remember seeing stats durring the Bush administration that showed the leading cause of teen homelessness was parents kicking their own children out on the streets for being gay. That's how morally bankrupt our country has been for a long time.
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  183. Yeah well, as China has proven, corporatism and state capitalism are actually adjacent political systems...tankies are just too dumb to understand this obvious fact, but what do you expect from people who think creating a ruling class in a totalitarian state brings you closer to actual communism?
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  184. ​@icarus313 people decide their views on war based on that all the time. Sorry if you don't have a moral compass when it comes to that.
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  185. ​ @theywouldnthavetocensormei9231 funny how the laws of supply and demand don't exist for people like you whenever it's inconvenient for those already holding wealth.
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  186. Calling it a genocide is acknowledging reality. Calling it a war is what is ideologically biased.
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  187. That's survivor's guilt fuel right there.
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  188. Beau of the Fifth Column has had some pretty informed, concise, and insightful commentary on the Afghanistan withdrawal (as usual, tbh) if you're looking for quality commentary from someone with a military background. Don't judge the book by its cover, btw.
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  189. *if there's no arms embargo, there is ACTIVE support of what is happening.
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  190.  @Mark.Richter  self awareness of a conservative
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  191. Because they wanted the results they are getting to try to deter people from comming here. This even matches the statements of those of them (like Trump) dumb enough to say aloud the parts that are "supposed" to be secret.
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  192.  @HIIIBEAR  the whole NPC thing, like everything else, was projection.
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  193. I mean, he's a full-out fascist, so...
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  194. Average Ben Shapiro viewer.
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  195. @I PUT MY BALLS ON YOUR DRUM SET if you want people to even take that number seriously enough to discuss, what's capitalism's death toll?
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  196.  @kevinnk5584  Dore and his little personality cult are one of the biggest obstacles to the progressive movement right now, so no, it's justified.
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  197. Enclaves for people who hate people.
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  198.  @DissociatedWomenIncorporated  it gets worse. If 1×1=2 then 1=2 and 2=1 and 1=0 and 0=1 which is basically as close as you could get to a mathematical negation of existence itself!
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  199. “the Government of the United States of America is not, in any sense, founded on the Christian religion.” -The Treaty of Tripoli 1796
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  200.  @RSW552  yeah, because of the BLM protests and hundreds of thousands of dead from a historic and mishandled pandemic. I mentioned that.
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  201.  @fredapeeples6619  because it benefited the rich at the expense of the workers which means it benefited him and the lobbiests backing him. Or put simpler: rich people working together to get richer screwing the working class. Was that supposed to be a difficult question?
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  202.  @28604  yeah, but Tankies aren't really anti-imperialist. They just don't like US imperialism.
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  203. We already have a method for generating answers for random general knowledge questions. It's called "search engines". Jordan Peterson forgot GOOGLE Existed!
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  204.  @rundmc555  if you read the list of things in an apple you wouldn't eat one.
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  205. I mean, he actually asked multiple times in the same meeting why we couldn't just use nukes so...
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  206. Our political spectrum has shifted pretty far right, hasn't it?
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  207.  @malungtvnews  ah yes, because forcing a vote on a bill we know will fail will surely get us there /s No shit healthcare's important
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  208.  @bigchedds8389  corporate lies.
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  209. Even just the property damage of breaking their way through windows and doors.
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  210. Never forget. Never forgive. They will never stop hating us so make sure the sentiment is returned.
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  211. They don't care if what they're saying has any relation to the truth at all. Only if it is useful.
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  212.  @BenSalernoMedia  which is a near total overlap with "libertarians" going "look, if we just allow unchecked accumulation of private economic power, that will maximize freedom" The "best" part is both libertarians and tankies can see the obviously contradiction in the other's ideology but can't see that they have the exact same one in theirs.
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  213.  @haroonsadiq4319  "anti-Liberal" is probably the most accurate description of whatever politics he has that extend beyond narcissism and self-interest
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  214. Abrahamic fascism is much alike Abrahamic fascism.
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  215. I don't get why it is so hard for some people who aren't ethnonationalists to just categorically denounce ethnonationalists and include people like Benny boy and Netanyahu in with Richard Spencer and his ilk.
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  216.  @danielvincent4292  oh look, someone that doesn't know basic political terminology. 2 people actually.
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  217. I mean, that's just skimming the surface of his problems, but yeah. He's also pretty obviously a fascist and had seeing Hitler's vacation home on his bucket list. In all likelihood, he's just a straight-up Nazi kinda like Ms 'Jewish Space Lasers'
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  218. Bill Maher OBVIOUSLY cares about the younger generations. ...at least in so far as he views us with overt hatred.
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  219. On the subject of Congress refusing to do a constitutionally mandated task when it was a politically inconvenient time for Republicans....that's how they packed the Supreme Court in the first place. Food for thought.
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  220. Really, we're talking about the democracy of a country with 1 party and totalitarian systems that surpass what was in 1984? Are you that stupid, or that dishonest?
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  221.  @frbe0101  I notice you completely dodged my question
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  222. Since when do colleges take into account what you did at 16? Oh right, every time they look at your highschool transcript/records, ask about your extracurriculars, etc. I'm sure he's grown some since then, and probably will continue to do so in the future, but please though, tell me more about how this is a special instance of a college digging into a student's past.
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  223. Trump fits every widely accepted definition of fascism, from Lawrence Britt's to Umberto Eco's to palingenetic ultra-nationalism. He's a fascist. The facts don't care about your feelings.
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  224. As are their constant appeals to religion and the flag as well as what passes for moral outrage for them.
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  225. My legit first thought was "when did they stop?"
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  226.  @captainvonkleist8323  I'm criticizing the modern incarnation of a political movement. That's not bigotry. Would you like to try again?
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  227. A rightwinger who rigged an election against them, showed blatent contempt for many of them, and wanted to push through policies that would have devistated their futures (up to and including selling out national sovereignty to a court of international conglomerates which would be vested with the power to sue the US over laws which reduced their profits, turning this country from just a defacto corporatocracy to one on paper)
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  228. She's undeniably right-wing. Like it or not, she's one of yours.
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  229. Of course Tucker is antiintelectual. It's one of the 14 characteristics from Umbero Eco's Ur-fascism.
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  230. You don't have the right to refuse illegal orders. You have the duty to refuse illegal orders, morally and legally.
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  231. Capital consequences!
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  232. Yes, but he's got a huge uphill battle to get voter turnout up. Trump also has a huge problem with people unwilling to vote for him afterall. It's going to be a huge mess that's going to significantly impact down ballot races, though.
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  233. 2. The rejection of modernism. “The Enlightenment, the Age of Reason, is seen as the beginning of modern depravity. In this sense Ur-Fascism can be defined as irrationalism.” 3. The cult of action for action’s sake. “Action being beautiful in itself, it must be taken before, or without, any previous reflection. Thinking is a form of emasculation.” See also: obsession with a plot, cult of heroism and death, viewing life as lived for struggle, contempt for the weak, and preoccupation with feelings of frustration and humiliation. We're not looking at stupidity, per se, but simply fascist rhetoric.
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  234.  @itsallminor6133  what kids watch these days doesn't leave them with crippling life-long fears and self-hatred. The Bible does.
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  235. Reminder: anecdotes are not data.
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  236. ​ @meghan42 WE (the younger generations) did listen. We've just been denied any political voice by the genocidal older generations.
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  237.  @whysocurious7366  unironically, though, we need a government agency that does nothing but go after corruption of government officials like police officers and special courts to try them in to prevent conflicts of interest.
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  238. Ben couldn't even handle an interview that wasn't a fluff piece, much less a debate of any level of formality or informality with an informed adult older than college age with equal access to the mic. He's 100% a feels over facts guy dressing himself up in the aesthetics of intellectualism while being fervently anti-intellectual.
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  239. Capitalism always trends toward monopolies without strong intervention. That's how the system operates.
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  240. The only real difference between a Nazi and a Neo-Nazi is where they want to set up their ethnostate. Neo-Nazis are Nazis by every substantive distinction.
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  241. Real men like seeing strong women. They don't see it as threatening competition. Ben is an insecure little boy.
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  242. Reminder: The leading expert on cults, the creator of the B.I.T.E. model, is calling MAGA groups cults and Trump a steriotypical cult leader.
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  243.  @ScottishRebel  last I checked Thunderf00t was lazily farming content producing basically the same several videos repeatedly for most of his content for easy money, but neither that, nor his tendency to get somewhat obsessive over going after someone doesn't mean his debunking of Musk was incorrect. The hyperloop was a recycled idea that was abandoned due to being impractical and his multistory tunnel systems are just an absurd attempt to get away from the fact that his elitist ass doesn't like what the real answer to traffic congestion is: public transit (perhaps even manditory in the city center)
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  244. An overstatement, but not by much.
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  245. Sounds like Strasser, huh?
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  246. I just say "capitalism redistributes wealth" which tends to put the other side in an unwinnable rhetorical position. Skip the superfluous re-.
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  247. Not even a good one, just the bare minimum!
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  248. ​ @GazB85 it's almost totally random these days, unfortunately.
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  249. Because glaring from that position is the only way a short manchild like him can look at all scary without a slasher smile or weapon in hand, so he does it when he's all angry too keep from looking rediculous.
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  250. ​ @elbotchk that used to exist. Comments that got downvoted enough were hidden by default unless someone clicked to show them. They removed that feature and the trolls rejoiced.
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  251. Trying to educate the willfully ignorant is a waste of time.
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  252. Dave Rubin's idea of the plot is just following the path to the easiest money. I haven't really watched TYT in years, but Anna really spelled out all anyone ever needs to know about him after he started his grift show.
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  253. My understanding is Nestle is the worst offender, though that may have changed.
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  254. If the DNC's role is to deny the will of democratic voters, they shouldn't exist. I don't really give a fuck what they want to "allow" because it's not their place to deny the will of the people.
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  255. No, the establishment "Democrats" should go run for the GOP because that's what they are.
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  256. Religiosity increases in-group/out-group mentality and persecution complexes. They're absolutely religious.
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  257. Yup, malignant narcissism combigned with arguably the most powerful military ever created is a bad combination that we've had far too much of.
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  258. "4. No syncretistic faith can withstand analytical criticism. The critical spirit makes distinctions, and to distinguish is a sign of modernism. In modern culture the scientific community praises disagreement as a way to improve knowledge. For Ur-Fascism, disagreement is treason." -Umberto Eco
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  259.  @lescobrandon9539  proving my point, fascist
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  260. Yup 2. The rejection of modernism. “The Enlightenment, the Age of Reason, is seen as the beginning of modern depravity. In this sense Ur-Fascism can be defined as irrationalism.” 3. The cult of action for action’s sake. “Action being beautiful in itself, it must be taken before, or without, any previous reflection. Thinking is a form of emasculation.” See also: obsession with a plot, cult of heroism and death, viewing life as lived for struggle, contempt for the weak, and preoccupation with feelings of frustration and humiliation.
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  261.  thesparitan  Musk does hate public transit and you're a fool if you buy his PR team's post hoc spin, and yes, at least within dense cities, switching entirely to public transit is viable. Cities have already done so in their city centers and seen great results. Let's also not pretend that the shift to EVs was because of Musk more than just becaude of market forces interacting with tech developed by others. Also, btw, sharing rides is good for a society and helps counteract the hyperindividualism bordering on narcissism that will be the death of us.
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  262. They didn't get where they are by not having an unquenchable lust for power.
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  263.  @rynegreen7902  I mean, it's not genetic, so he might be able to slip by as long as he was able to prove useful to the party, but with fascism constantly narrowing what's considered the "in group" no-one is really safe. It's just sorting society into the order of the line headed into the gas chambers, but everyone is the line, ultimately, being pushed ahead by the people behind them and no-one is really safe. The only way it doesn't end up killing everyone is if it collapses under it's own inability to run a country before it can. As long as there are 2 people left, it's going to be trying to kill one of them because it's a suicide/death cult. There is no actual endgame. If it runs out of enemies to kill, it just creates new divisions because it needs enemies to fight. Get rid of all non-white people, and they'll move onto hair and eye color and any other difference they can find. There isn't actually any endgame beyond violence for as long as there are targets.
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  264. Crypto currencies are pyramid schemes that hurt the environment.
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  265. Mostly east to PA, get dumped by the rain, and then probably mostly flow into the Ohio river watershed, so then right back to a different part of Ohio.
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  266. Nah, just paid off by many of the same people.
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  267. Squatting is not theft. Ownership is defined by the law. Get over it.
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  268. "Gatekeeper" is a term for people who decide what information does and does not get presented to the people. It's mainly been used, historically, to describe people like Tucker himself and his bosses in what today is (when people are being polite) called "legacy media" which often entirely decided what picture of the world people got to see. So yeah, it's yet again, raw projection because the only thing approaching"gatekeeping" twitter does is to remove people who violate their very lax TOS. What things does Tucker want to say on twitter that he's not allowed to? Tell us Tucker.
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  269.  @rishabhanand4973  yeah, just accept that there is no bottom to the barrel.
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  270.  @StoveToTheFace  pink is a troll and immune to facts
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  271. Unfortunately, the McResistance went with the charge they were never going to get to stick because they're too committed to the RussiaGate narrative they used to distract from the DNC leaks and because they'd also be implicated with the more substantial charges. The problems you face when you don't actually have any major parties that aren't right wing authoritarians.
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  272.  @why-even-try-brotendo  according to Ana (who I'm inclined to believe on this) not only is he only in it for the money, but he wants to get it with the least effort possible.
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  273.  @Truth_In_Victory  tell you what, type in "jordan peterson doesn't understand" in the search bar up there, start watching what turns up, and get back to us with how credible you still think he is.
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  274. Do we though? We're assuming baldness, but it could be hiding a head injury that would explain a lot.
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  275. Biden telling the Latino community to fall in line is not at all strange. That is is altitude towards all of us peasants who might dissent.
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  276. It's not. It's a pyramid scheme.
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  277.  @MayanScientist  more than the thugs, actually.
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  278. It won't in our lifetime. Too much of a mess made in the last 50ish years for that to happen. Moves towards sanity would be nice, though.
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  279. ​ @josephversleys because teaching children sex ed helps protect them from rape.
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  280. It's generally frowned upon for adults to punch children.
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  281. ​ @cmbells7736 it's ALWAYS true of right-wingers.
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  282. No billionaire is self-made. Full stop.
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  283.  @presentedbyconormctappersp4565  possible also, that at least a bit of the Christian supremacism is genuine and he knows that if they don't back off the bigotry, they're just going to be creating more athiests and leading people from worshiping god to worshiping that gold statue of Trump. ...or just that he's going to loose viewers if he doesn't back off hating on people who may be his audience's grandchildren or great grandchildren.
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  284. We already know this for a fact. To pluck just one example of many from history, the Irish used to not be considered "white". As long as you can tell 2 people appart in any way, they will try to put one beneath another's heel, because the point IS the brutal heirarchy.
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  285. That's a huge stretch. She's making standard establishment Dem mistakes, yes, but Hillary was WAY worse than this. I think you've forgotten how bad the 2016 campaign was.
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  286. Corporatist Bloomberg trying to prop up state capitalist China isn't really that strange outside of him being more honest than expected about how close the ideologies are. Just look at what he said about moving the coal plants away from the cities. A-doesn't effect carbon emissions B-doesn't have anything to do with public oppinion, only practical necessity and worker productivity Also, trying to make a totalitarian state that would shock George Orwell with the amount of control they wield over their people is pretty out there.
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  287. Wars of aggression are crimes against peace. Defensive wars are legal. Likewise warcrimes consist largely of actions so appalling that they make difficult to impossible that terms could be come to for a future peace. Instead, things that are warcrimes almost guarantee that the war will devolve into an endless cycle of vengeance. You should look more into what, specifically, warcrimes are and why each of those things are warcrimes.
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  288. Nah, they can always take more...funny though, they keep trying to take away everything but the guns...I can't see any wisdom in that. Constantly making more enemies while making sure as many are armed as possible just sounds like a really elaborate method of suicide to me.
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  289. If course she's useless against the right. She is center right.
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  290. @JS 09 like an open nuclear reactor spreading its poison over a continent.
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  291. Renewables are the cheapest form of power per kwh. You're just lying.
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  292. The hyperloop which was a century old idea discarded for being impractical, or the reinvention of "subways, but worse" so he can avoid the fact that the real solution to traffic is normal public transit (because he's disgusted at sharing a ride with poor people)? Which idiotic stolen idea are we talking about?
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  293.  @WillowTDog  yup, pink, specifically, hasn't learned a single thing from being corrected for 9 years straight
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  294. ​ @EnlightenedMindset it is going away because the younger voters are moving left and the older ones are going to "age out" of voting.
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  295.  @NewNormalWorldOrder  the "alt-right" are typically zionists because "alt-right" is a rebranding of neo-nazi and they want to racially segregate nations, and because the Jews are easier to exterminate if they're all in one place. The leaders all understand this, so they're typically Zionists. Welcome to Nazism aka "the alt-right"
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  296. Might be nice if he survives untill 2024 actually. I'm thinking specifically October.
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  297. We need to call a spade a spade here. It is just ageism.
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  298.  @commandershepard9920  the center of the country and political spectrum (though not the US Overton window) is about where Bernie's platform is, and those people don't call themselves "centrists" usually.
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  299. (tm)
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  300. Exactly
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  301. @I PUT MY BALLS ON YOUR DRUM SET dude, you're the one who brought up the death toll thing. Can't give one number without giving the other if you're trying to make a comparison to say one's better. But hey, keep on proving you're only repeating one number without thinking at all and have never even bothered looking up the thing you would need to to actually even begin to make an arguement with it. It's great at showing how little anyone should take anything you have to say seriously. Keep it up.
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  302. The truth, to the far right, is whatever would serve power at that moment. I wish that were hyperbolic, but it's not. The far right values hierarchy over truth (or just about anything really).
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  303.  @PokettoManStar  you're thinking of it in terms of 2 sides shooting. That's not the problem time period. The guy isn't going to out-fight a SWAT team. The problem time is when there is only the murderer and victims. In that situation, you absolutely want obstructed line of sight because it means the victims will have a better idea of where the shooter is than visa-versa, helping to increase their odds of escape.
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  304. White nationalism is a death cult, plain and simple.
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  305.  @williamriordan1619  it does not follow from "Bernie lost 2 primaries" to "Bernie would have lost the general election to Trump" Look up "non-sequitur" and "Dunning-Kreuger"
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  306. And yet we know that if any black and/or leftist group had pulled this stunt without lethal intent, they would have been gunned down en masse.
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  307. PragerU advertises on basically all demonitized (even politically-adjacent) channels. Am I missing the point?
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  308. Or, and here me out, we could actually respect the constitution.
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  309. When in doubt, it's worth reversing the question. Why would a pseudo-intellectual whimp be right-wing? I think the answer to that question is more obvious.
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  310.  @answerman86  you're failing the Turing test right now, Mr NPC
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  311.  @ellamaeloftus3493  same thing.
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  312. Hell, there are grown women that don't know how women's bodies works because our sex ed is that bad.
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  313.  @davelocke  "centrist" aka where-ever the center of the Overton Window is atm aka center-right (and sliding further right)
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  314.  @tracyleay  I mean the Nazis blended Christianity, norse peganism, and other occult elements so that's not really mutually exclusive there.
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  315.  @prodesu8607  no she hasn't. She's just gone back to hiding it less.
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  316. Absolutely not. He has clear hatred for millenials. I will not vote for someone bigoted against me and pushing a platform that would benefit himself at my expense.
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  317.  @kelliv2995  more like "everyone copy that shit"
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  318. Yes, she is, and remember who the Vatican allied with in the early to mid 20th century.
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  319. Sounds a lot like the 2010s...and the 1600s
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  320. You missed the main thing he was lacking to think a table full of McDonald's was something to be excited over: maturity. He did this because he's a manchild. Anyone want to bet he got some of it as a happy meal for the toy?
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  321. Trolls and cultists offended that their daddy had truth spoken about him
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  322. Please go look up "Debt the first 5000 years." to dispell the rediculous notions of the origin of money hypothesized by Adam Smith (and debunked by the entire field of anthropology) Real money (including, yes, fiat, which is a misnomer) isn't some magic thing invented to smooth out barter, but instead represents (dirrectly or indirrectly) paid debt to those who work outside the market in some form of public service. It is spent into the economy to pay public servants, and it has value for them to trade in the market economy because the taxes (which are, functionally, a confirmation that you have paid your debt to the people that make your civilization possible) create an effectively universal demand for said currency. The problem with our currency isn't that the government can issue as much of it as they want. The problem is that private, for-profit banks are in control of most of the creation of money in our system (look up "sovereign money" for schools of thought which actually counter those issues) Gold and cryptocurrencies both have the problem of a largely finite supply, meaning that the supply of currency cannot grow to match a growing economy, which means that any growth in the economy not matched by a comperable aquisition of your chosen monitary unit will produce deflation (which is bad for an economy). On top of that, their current price (especially for cryptocurrencies) is only there because new people keep putting real money into the system. In short, cryptocurrencies are impractical on a large scale for multiple reasons and fit the definition of a Ponzi scheme and gold's problems are long documented. Once we dispell the myths about money (and take back control of our government from the moneyed interests) we will be able to fix the problems with our current system fairly easily.
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  323.  @presterjohn1697  that's not at all how vaccinations work. The more people we get vaccinated, the slower the mutation rate will be because it will be infecting fewer people. This isn't like antibiotic resistance.
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  324. Flip that on it's head for a second; why would it be good for a party to exclude people from their primary who will be critical votes in the general? In practice, closed primaries serve to conserve the status quo and current power structure, making it the conservative (not even liberal) position, and puts more power in the hands of the parties and those who decide when you can register than the voters, making it mildly anti-democratic. The progressive position is something like ranked-choice voting, but open primaries are at least closer to that. You make claims about your political stance, but here you are protecting a right-wing system that produces right-wing results more often than not. You've gotta do something about that contradiction in your ideology.
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  325. In essence, yes. If a shooter decides to surrender to the police (a minority of cases) they are still the shooter, but no longer actively shooting.
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  326.  @GlobalWave1  post colonialism is a bit broad of a thing to pin down as any particular point within the left, and leftists are generally less concerned about someone being "too far" left. Ineffective/counterproductive leftists? Yes, they can be a problem. Fake leftists are absolutely a problem. There isn't actually an equivalent with the way going too far right just automatically means evil, dispite how much propaganda there is to the contrary (because even when I think the ultimate goal someone wants is unachievable, the ideals aren't intrinsically bad) So yeah, socDems can sit down with anarchocommunists and get along just fine (as long as neither is just an asshole) while being open with their politics in a way that, for example, liberals and fascists rarely do (except behind a poisonous veil of decorum and dogwhistles)
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  327. @Walter Mennekens ...I mean...I remember some story about someone talking about teaching "both sides" of the holocaust already so...
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  328. His disgust at public transit as he frantically tries to find a way to solve traffic without ever having to share a ride with poor people isn't the most eco-friendly course of action.
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  329. ​ @No_co_OK is a systemic solution to a systemic problem too much to ask?
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  330. "Work makes you free"
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  331. The dose makes the poison as the saying goes, but yeah, it might not be the best time to go hiking or do other extensive outdoor activities if you don't have to kinda like is recommended for bad air quality days. Not that people are spending a lot of time outside this time of year normally.
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  332.  @bigchedds8389  you're projecting.
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  333.  @bigchedds8389  will YouTube even let me say "citation needed" without deleting my comment? Let's see.
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  334.  @bigchedds8389  where have I ever said anything about this being a free market?
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  335.  @bigchedds8389  you will never find me claiming we have a free market anywhere on the internet. You completely made that up.
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  336. ​ Silencedfixer then they are, at best, making a moral compromise because of how we don't provide sufficiently for a guaranteed retirement in this country and should be treading with great care and humility not to overstep what is absolutely needed for their own survival....and should probably will the home to whoever is paying rent for it.
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  337.  Silencedfixer  did I stutter? I don't know Sam's situation or how well he is navigating it morally speaking, nor would it change what I said. Everyone here knows that that fallacious comment is an admission you have no real counter argument.
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  338.  Andrea MENDENHALL  the data absolutely supports the analogy.
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  339.  Andrea MENDENHALL  oh look, YouTube deleted my comment too, because it hates facts. Let's try again.
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  340.  Andrea MENDENHALL  3/3 and then look up: theintercept chicago police misconduct social network So yeah, the data absolutely supports the true bad apple comparison. And that's not even getting into how forming the thin blue line to cover for criminal cops makes everyone involved a bad cop by definition or anything else. Just raw data. Deal
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  341.  Andrea MENDENHALL  let's take a look at how willing you are to be dishonest here. I mentioned YouTube deleting posts, numbered my posts. #2/3 is clearly missing, but I'm the one looking at just one factor (which even the study of the comment I showed was dealing with an in depth analysis of multiple things), one of my other comments leading you to a different study was clearly eaten by YouTube, and you're looking at out of context stats so you can motte and bailey this convo. Yeah, maybe cut down the projection by a factor of 1000 if you want to be able to have a conversation based in reality?
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  342.  @dalmarahmed8499  "anarchotyranny" Rotflmfao holy shit that single word is the dumbest thing I've read in months.
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  343.  @aaroncarson1770  no, that checks out. Disney is quite evil.
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  344. Trump's cult of personality is a shadow of what it once was. You're even contradicting yourself on that point.
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  345.  @37VQV  he's trying to make other people's ideas a reality by throwing heaps of money at it and often goes after completely unworkable ones becuase he's not smart enough to tell the good ones from the bad. He's not a complete moron, but tallent, that ain't.
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  346.  @stephenbailey9969  as you see it is biased because you don't see Palestinians as fully human or take a pro-humanity stance like I do. That's WHY you engage in this reality denial.
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  347. New?
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  348.  @bertthompson4748  shall we go into the withholding of evidence that would have proven someone's innocence next? We all agree she's not Trump, but her record has some really big issues.
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  349.  @andygreg293  he's setting up a 3rd party run because he's hoping that will throw the election to Trump. As has been said on the show before, capital breaks fascist.
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  350. Some of us still want everyone who voted for the war tried at the Hague.
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  351. Exactly
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  352.  Amy Sternheim  frankly, with his complete inability to not sound like he was proud about that lie, even if his doctor came out and corroborated his story I would assume bribery was involved.
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  353.  @adrianshantz768  I think we'd all like to hear more from him.
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  354.  the business handler  colleges look at more than just your grades, or have you never applied to one?
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  355. They openly want Trump back.
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  356. Fascism
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  357. Very simple, appealing to tradition is a logical fallacy
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  358.  @BoxLaneProductions  they are, and from what I hear (so far at least) releasing them as soon as they ask for a lawyer. This is an attempt to terrorize the population and normalize the snatching of people off the street for what comes next.
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  359.  @SheriffSparky200  "zombie personality defect" dude, what is your malfunction?!
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  360.  @kyle1235  not really, and you're straying further off topic. 😑
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  361. The key to understanding it is to realize that right wing ideology is about concentrated/heirarchal power. By the time someone is far right like Ben, they are long past where they care more about power than truth.
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  362.  @matthewbadley5063  excuse me for stepping a bit low on this, but I'm not exactly convinced Trump has an iron sphincter, especially at his age.
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  363.  @Sweatyleftist  it falls into the same category of scams as nfts and stocks that give no voting rights or dividends: their value is created entirely on people exchanging currency for them. When more people buy in, the value goes up. When people cash out, the value goes down. When the only way the people who buy in make a profit is others buying in after them, that's called a pyramid scheme. It can be dressed up and hidden behind the public being taught myths instead of realities about money, but it remains exactly what it is.
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  364.  @Sweatyleftist  so you say there are exceptions and then you suggest pegging national currencies to onw that is a wildly fluctuating pyramid scheme like that will stabilize things? Sorry, but you don't understand money. (Also, the entire notion of a reserve currency, be it USD or bars of precious metals, is unnecessary. Proper monetary policy and the power to enforce taxes are all that is needed.)
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  365.  @Sweatyleftist  ...you expect me to believe you're even arguing in good faith at all while you pretend you're not oscillating back and forth between Bitcoin and systems you want to paint as so very different like I wouldn't notice. Fact: you just proposed using Bitcoin as an international reserve currency. All your claims about other cryptocurrencies are irrelevant in that context and I'm not going to pretend otherwise. No matter what vague language you employ to distract from that.
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  366.  @Sweatyleftist  ooh, calling you on your blatent dishonesty seems to have hit a nerve, huh? But yeah, I'll keep telling the truth and you'll keep telling people things that will drive up the value of your investment and their expense. I get it.
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  367. If you're not mad, you haven't been paying attention.
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  368. No, please keep being defensive and showing what a frightened hack you are.
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  369. See: RWA score.
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  370. Always has been
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  371. IMO, the best way to start to understand US politics is to learn about the psychology of domestic abuse.
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  372.  @clairduffy60  better question: since the cooks weren't working. why didn't he order something better than McDonald's. Could have even ordered Bob Evans and no one would have said anything given the circumstances. Answer: he's still a child that gets excited by McDonalds.
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  373. @Silence Do Good aw, boo hoo, I'm being mean to fascists by exposing them for what they are. Let me pull out the worlds smallest violin to play a sad, sad tune for them. Or, you know, we could all go back to at least pretending hating fascists and calling them out wasn't a contentious political take.
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  374.  @BassBouncers  people have already told you that those countries are already making their own moves. Why are you still repeating this talking point like a hack. Are you getting paid?
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  375. @Carsen Burgess possibly inevitable at this point, but it didn't have to be...which is just incredibly infuriating.
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  376.  @rust44  not a problem if you're a white, cis, het, far-right winger or willing to be an uncle tom for them
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  377.  @drownedhill3829  if you leaned your head back as you laugh, you might see the actual point sailing over your head.
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  378. ​ @Temooreview argument from incredulity is a logical fallacy. Clearly not living up to your username.
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  379. It's not that they don't learn. It's that they actively PREFER this outcome to winning with progressives.
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  380. And still is
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  381.  @No_co_OK  did we not go over you sticking to actual arguments instead of baseless ad-homs under a different comment? How often do you need reminded of this?
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  382.  @jewelsouth  really? Telling poor people in poor communities to blame themselves for being poor? How about blaming the people and system that keeps poor people trapped in poverty in the first place?
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  383.  @michaelvanderwal7390  also, all evidence points to the Dayton shooting being because he was an incel, not because he was leftist, while there are constantly far-right shooters explicitly citing their white-supremacist politics as their motivation in their manifestos. As for bombing the camps, not only was there an element of suicide by cop there, but people are being tortured, being sexually assaulted and dying in those concentration camps ...I couldn't care less about some aggressive property destruction in that context.
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  384. Seriously. They don't view us as real people.
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  385.  @GoDanReport  your projection and lack of self-awareness are not my fault.
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  386. @Kod Rimble thank you, though I'm far from the first person to describe fascism as a suicide cult. Beyond that specific word choice making the weaponry comparison direct and explicit, I am merely the messenger tonight.
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  387. Funny thing happens when you have inelastic demand in an unchecked marketplace, huh?
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  388.  Dr Downtime  a-wrong b-getting some government grants to slap together a pathetic prototype for an idea he can't make work isn't "bringing something to market"
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  389. Yup, the ones who could be doing nothing else but buying influence over the narrative really expose the whole game being played on us all. Boeing and GE are big MIC companies buying propaganda today.
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  390.  @RedXlV  side note, as an excellent case example: the areas Bernie won vs Hillary in PA were the areas she also lost against Trump. In other words, Bernie beat Hillary in the more traditionally conservative districts in PA with Hillary only being able to grab major city districts that always go blue but are desensitized to PA's extremely corrupt neoliberalism. Bernie vs Trump in PA wouldn't even be close. Bernie would absolutely crush him. If anyone doubts that, feel free to look the results for the 2016 primary and general elections up yourself and compare. Also, the same people on the left that were most strongly warning that Trump could win are the same ones most strongly saying that Bernie has the absolute best chances vs Trump. Meanwhile the people that were dismissive of Trump are saying others have better chances against him. Kinda telling huh?
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  391. When neoliberalism inevitably fails, corporatists so reliably break fascist throughout history that allying with corporate structures is one of the defining traits of fascism.
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  392. That happened over a decade ago, frankly.
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  393. It's called appeasement and it didn't work on the fascists of the 20th century either.
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  394.  @scottsbarbarossalogic3665  ha! Accurate!
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  395. FPS maps are designed to make it so people aren't painfully easy to shoot from half-way across the map with no way to get out of the line of fire. That point isn't as smart as it sounds in your head to anyone who understands level design and mass shootings.
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  396.  @jakewhite8340  that's kinda the point of them butting in to prevent us from having those conversations
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  397.  @jackarmstrong5645  there have never been a significant amount of intellectual heavyweights on the right (especially not the far right). What they have is corporate backing supporting propagandists with no scruples. So, Dave is really par for the course.
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  398.  @ColdHardTruthNews  Better question: who is getting thrown in concentration camps next if we do nothing?
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  399.  @zeusmasterson4117  Jimmy is a jagoff and an idiot (even by his own admission) flailing around, but Stephen and Joe are actively trying to do harm. Let's make a distinction there.
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  400.  @matthewschwartz6607  perceived electability fostered by a corporate media biased against Bernie. You can look up polls. They showed that people supported Biden largely because they believed he could beat Trump, not due to agreeing with his politics. The information has been out there for a long time so continuing to lean on your argument from incredulity is, frankly, pathetic.
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  401. Why would a rich asshole with a history of contempt for the poor want an armored car with a huge economic collapse on the horizon? Occam's Razor seems to work here.
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  402. I'd demand the order in writing, then shoot my CO.
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  403. Even "significantly" is debatable.
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  404. The entire country is built on ethnic cleansing. It has no right to exist.
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  405.  @Chandra_Moon13  same target audience (baring the religion) as JP and Nazis, huh, almost like they are targeting the vulnerable and exploiting them.
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  406. While morally excusable in a country that doesn't actually have a real retirement plan for its citizens, much of the same class dynamics and incentives exist for both, so sometimes it IS appropriate to lump them together depending on what is being said. Landlording is always a moral compromise at best.
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  407. ​@teotronia😂
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  408. He's done so in the past.
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  409. Almost like giving businesses more ability to intimidate and mistreat undocumented workers was the goal to begin with.
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  410. The MSM was caught colluding with the Clinton campaign last election, CNN has been caught photoshoping pictures of Bernie to make him look sick...hell, there was a guilty plea in New York for illegally knocking likely Sanders voters off the rolls among a pile of other BS and you're incredulous about this??? Really?!
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  411. Literally. Q-anon absolutely qualifies as a cult, even beyond the colloquial sense of the word.
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  412. I mean, they still were. Getting here has been a process
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  413. I really don't think Joe actually doesn't understand. Joe is actually pretending to be way more moderate than he is and is a bigot himself, which is why he laughs at jokes that exist to push bigotry.
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  414. I mean, we got what we clicked for though.
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  415. Coming further left is not just what we want for policy. It's the winning electoral strategy. They're not moving to the right because they need to to win. They're moving to the right because it's who they really are, unfortunately.
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  416. The lesson was taught. The problem is Dems really WOULD rather loose to Trump than win with a real progressive.
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  417. The center is to the left of the Democratic party. Everyone who doesn't understand this needs to get the word "centrist" out of their fascist-appeasing mouths!
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  418. If I may answer that question with a question, do you think Faux News's customers (that is to say, their advertisers) lost out with that war, or that it only affected their bottom line positively if it had any effect at all?
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  419. A-doesn't change the carbon emissions B-he's doing it to keep worker productivity up, not because he cares about his constituents. This shouldn't need said, but it does.
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  420.  @MrWeezy312  at the very least, if we can isolate him and his community from the progressive movement he can stop being a liability. Ostracization to limit the scope of the damage he can do has become important, unfortunately.
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  421. I again am left pointing to Innuendo Studio's "The Card Says Moops" video for explanation (spoilers, though, they legitimately don't actually give a fuck if it's true or not)
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  422. ​ @JohnnyDelco  in every possible way he is a TEXTBOOK fascist.
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  423.  @mangobalaclava3329  because we're talking about office building and it would be really easy to prove fraud when someone is claiming to live in a bunch of buildings in the same area and they're clearly going unused.
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  424.  @thomasmendola937  currency, even gold currency, has value in the market because of the universal demand created by taxes. Said taxes serve as an acknowledgement that you have paid your debt, dirrectly or indirrectly, to the people who work outside the market economy (such as firefighters) to make your civilization possible. While massive banking reform is obviously needed, faith and precious metals are both entirely unnecessary, and anyone who says they are important doesn't understand the issue well enough to be worth listening to.
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  425. I don't know of a good contact, and there's a chance that it needs to be someone other than you that files it, but that is a good point and worth looking into.
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  426.  @No_co_OK  ah yes, because ANYTHING I've said indicates narcissism. Stop projecting and stick to the actual arguments instead of baseless ad-homs.
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  427. That is helarious on multiple levels
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  428. Fucking really?
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  429. I used to listen to him (with a large grain of salt) before he went off the deep end when Bernie held to his promise to support the nominee in 2016. Idk how honest vs grifty how he's acting right now is, and frankly, I don't care. He's a liability that needs to be ostracized from progressive circles as thoroughly as we did to Dave Rubin to limit the damage he can do, and it needs to happen asap.
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  430.  @kimmmimemwest1895  it was a rhetorical flurrish referring only to the part of what he said that my comment touched on. I think you may have misread. I agree 100% that structural racism exists. (Perhaps "he's right about one thing:" would have been a better phrasing, though)
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  431. Very simple: Nuremberg didn't go far enough.
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  432.  @garetclaborn  no shit I feel threatened. He's building a cult-like following out of neo-nazis and the exact same type of emotionally lost man childern they recruit while drip-feeding them watered down Nazi propaganda. If you don't think he's dangerous you're ignorant, a fool, or a Nazi.
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  433.  @Cerulerouge827  just a good-natured attempt to try to clear up some confusion, nothing more.
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  434. International law means nothing when it can be vetoed.
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  435. What's going on is we have a conservative party and a fascist party
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  436. Typically, but not always
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  437. And what do they loose for trying?
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  438.  @MetalDetroit  oh look, a right-winger denying history. Must be a day ending in y
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  439. At least Jimmy Dore openly admits that he's not that smart and is "just a jagoff nightclub comedian" trying to point out the obvious. JP is the exact opposite in that respect.
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  440.  Mister Physics  why might the public of the US who still treats the royal family they fought a war to be free of like celebrities keep falling into the trap of political dynasties? Maybe getting rid of the monarchy of just one country could improve the democratic institutions of several because the existence of a royal family is poison to democratic nations.
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  441. Javier Fernandez the Bush administration is guilty of gross negligence, but building 7 came down because it was hit by burning debris, nothing more.
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  442. Fascists really need to stop invoking radical Democratic Socialists like they're on the same side...
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  443. Right-wingers gonna right-wing.
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  444.  @vinniemcclung693  the thing is that a vote for a bill doomed to fail means nothing more than a cosponsor, and those that won't cosponsor are already our targets in the primary and as vulnerable to attacks based on not supporting M4A as they would be if they had voted against it.
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  445. Every thinking person involved in politics knew the Bush administration was lying because they kept changing their justification for going to war around and around between WMDs, Al-Quaida connections, and human rights justifications as soon as objections started to be raised to each. You don't, for example, need to know the status of Iraq's WMD program to know that when the UN inspectors said "give us more time" and suddenly the reason to attack became something else to know they were just looking for an excuse and when they went back to the WMD narrative several times before the UN inspectors had given a report, it should have been obvious that the excuses were all lies. Every politician and journalist that supported the war is either complicit, or far too stupid to have their job. There is no 3rd option.
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  446. Riddle for you: Why do capitalists knowingly hire undocumented workers while pushing for punitive policies against said workers and a wall (which would increase the number of said workers in the country) instead of not using them and pushing for punitive policies towards the companies that do (which would hurt their competitors)? Answer: Because the more desperate and afraid said workers are, the shittier working conditions and wages they will put up with put of fear of being reported.
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  447.  Andrea MENDENHALL  1/3: what you're pulling is called a motte-and-bailey fallacy, first off. You can look that one up on Wikipedia
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  448.  Andrea MENDENHALL  2/3 since YouTube hates actually citing things with links, you'll have to do the web search yourself but there are actual studies (not just "here's a couple datapoints, let's infer without expertise") and here's 1: Look up: pbs nova police misconduct peer effects (Reposted: also, no shit it's a Dem run city. Almost all cities are. The GOP typically controls rural areas which run on a sheriff system, which is different. Also most dems are on the right, so yeah, not going to get much love for them here)
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  449.  @coocoolefool  you're being distracted by the people you've been told to be afraid of and are missing the bigger question: Can politicians be trusted to tell any adult citizen "you can't vote."? NO! You get shit like disproportionate sentencing and legislating BS to specifically target communities unlikely to vote for them. That's how we got the war on drugs. Just like with gerrymandering and all other forms of voter suppression and disenfranchisement, politicians being allowed to choose their voters completely flips the entire idea of people choosing their government on its head. The right to vote must be inalienable. Period. End of discussion.
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  450.  @aaroncarson1770  I don't have the detail on hand, but pretty much every major film company is cozy with the Pentagon in exchange for the use of military equipment in their movies. On top of that, the corporate news channels run ads for the Pentagon and MIC companies, and so are pretty dirrectly paid off that way.
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  451. That's how we got here though, so don't hold your breath for the US government to kill off their own puppet.
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  452. I thought his lead-in for that was inhaling....
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  453. "2. Traditionalism implies the rejection of modernism. Both Fascists and Nazis worshiped technology, while traditionalist thinkers usually reject it as a negation of traditional spiritual values. However, even though Nazism was proud of its industrial achievements, its praise of modernism was only the surface of an ideology based upon Blood and Earth (Blut und Boden). The rejection of the modern world was disguised as a rebuttal of the capitalistic way of life, but it mainly concerned the rejection of the Spirit of 1789 (and of 1776, of course). The Enlightenment, the Age of Reason, is seen as the beginning of modern depravity. In this sense Ur-Fascism can be defined as irrationalism. 3. Irrationalism also depends on the cult of action for action’s sake. Action being beautiful in itself, it must be taken before, or without, any previous reflection. Thinking is a form of emasculation. Therefore culture is suspect insofar as it is identified with critical attitudes. Distrust of the intellectual world has always been a symptom of Ur-Fascism" -Umberto Eco's 14 Characteristics of Ur-fascism
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  454.  Walter De wit  you want to stop the imperialism of the white man wrecking South America. Get rid of the US-installed fascist in Brazil called Bolsonaro by any means necessary, rather than trying to yell this rediculous and counter-productive tirade at those people from America who want to stop their government's imperialism.
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  455. As someone that's center-left, I agree that's the way to go, but Bernie is only a left-leaning moderate and is being treated as some radical so we have a long fucking way to go before far leftists even get close to being on the edge of mainstream.
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  456. Yup. That's why the Nazis names themselves what they did dispite not at all being socialists. It's 100% classic fascistic rhetoric
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  457. Yeah, the subtle ways reactionaries are promoting violence while maintaining plausible deniability is a really big problem, but at the same time, history shows that when push comes to shove, capital tends to me more opposed to anything left-wing than fascism, so letting a mega-corp control discourse (especially under the pretense of being advertiser friendly) runs a real danger of them suppressing all left-wing content more than reactionaries, as long as they aren't too overy about it...and history shows that when capitalism is in crisis, and left wing voices are silenced, you get fascism. There is a really interesting conversation there, but even if Jimmy were able to set his emotions aside (which when can he?), he's nowhere near smart enough for that conversation. Kyle and Sam might be up for it and it could be really interesting if they bring their A game and keep their heads.
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  458. The lesson was sent and received. The think you're missing is Dems really would rather loose to Trump than win with real progressives.
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  459.  @heronimousbrapson863  considering adding at least half of banking to that list. We need sovereign monitary policy, not this absurd boom-bust cycle with governments paying interest for the use of their own currency. The current finance systems are insanity.
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  460. "Centrists" love indulging in the feeling of superiority of their imagined highground from the safety of their couch.
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  461. ​ @swdetroiter313 fyi, you've been reported for misinformation and supporting terrorism.
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  462. And he just had to throw the ageist steriotyping as the cherry on top...but then he's a boomer, so that's not surprising either.
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  463.  @rust44  several is a huge understatement. The "alt right" is the leading source of domestic terrorism in the US and committed all of it last year.
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  464.  @peterbondy  I mean, internalized bigorty happens in every form from sexism, to racism, to homophobia, etc. I would never claim ageism to be any different, but let's be real, older generations' complaints about ageism towards them is kinda like white people complaining about racism towards them. Does it happen and suck when it does? Sure, but if there's some uncouth comments about white people under a story about some racist BS a racist white person did, I'm not under there making the issue about anti-white racism. See what I mean?
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  465.  @peterbondy  I mean, don't get me wrong either, that is happening and I would much rather people be vocalizing that frustration in calling out, for example, Biden's ageism instead of making more wierd essentialist statements about older generations. Identifying and calling out bigotry for what it is, is much more productive than taking a less targeted approach to reacting to bigotry dirrected towards one's group (as we have seen with other civil rights issues). How to get from where we are where the understanding of what's happening to the younger generations being ageism as subconscious to a more productive reaction of calling a spade a spade instead of the normal reaction we see now, though, idk, beyond doing my very small part in putting the right labels on things and do things like steer the conversation in a more productive dirrection. I do appriciate your willingness to listen, btw, agree that a lot of the comments weren't things I would say I really approve of, and hope that came across.
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  466.  @th69supreme58  a sticky sugary syrup covering up and making palatable to those with crude taste an expensive and low-quality product really just a great metaphor for this whole situation isn't it.
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  467.  @samzen9031  kinda proves my point about how Ben's rhetoric and the actions of the Israeli government feed the rise of Nazis
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  468.  thesparitan  you know what's greener than that? Public transit, and Musk hates public transit because it means sharing a ride with poor people who he's expressed concern might kill him. People aren't talking about Musk's flamethrower producing a huge amount of greenhouse gasses. People are popping the myth that Musk is some savior from climate change because what he really is, is an asshole with too much money inventing toys for rich kids.
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  469.  @jeremiahbarnes6313  not the least among them the extreme level of stigmatization of it such that parents commonly let their kids never leave their room rather than accepting the "shame" of taking them to get help....to say nothing of the overwork problem or the relationship problem coming from that and the attempt to hold onto traditional relationship rituals in a more egalitarian society. It's an interesting mess that's not without positives, but an absolute mess.
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  470.  @connormcgregor4578  I mean, one has the nuclear codes right now so...
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  471. Landlords aren't working for free. The job that's doing the work of upkeeping apartments is "property manager". Landlording is just getting paid because you already have more wealth than someone else.
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  472. There are functionally endless replacements for her type. She was alwasy going to be replaced with another person who would do the same things because the people that do the selecting for the position haven't changed.
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  473. This is less "I'm trying to make this a viable mass production line" and more "I'm terrified what the disgusting poor people might do after the next economic crash, so want an armored car that would fit into a cyberpunk setting"
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  474. Citation? (Honest question)
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  475. @user-kx4dp1ki8p where do squatting rights let you to take over a building occupied by someone else? I'll wait.
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  476. That'll happen when you take Koch money to push their propaganda.
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  477. Well, what passes for "centrist" in the US anyway...
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  478. ​ @Acanthophis Your argument only makes sense if the Dems actually prioritize winning. They. Don't.
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  479. "Grew up"? I'm quite sure he's done no such thing.
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  480. More likely she's trying to draw attention away from Biden when he was about to be hit hard on his record so he could go into the first voting better prepared and she could get a vp/cabinet position.
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  481.  @HahaDamn  you think elections are anything but a formality in a totalitarian state? What a joke.
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  482. Factually incorrect. Also, you lot being Nazis IS the real story here.
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  483.  @kyle1235  didn't say they were ever left at all, did I?
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  484.  @tretre3892  most likely MLM spam. Report for unwanted commercial content/spam.
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  485. The center between a center-right party and a right wing extremist party is FAR RIGHT.
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  486.  @Theomite  also decreased ability to make and understand jokes. Also decreased ability to engage in collaborative/non-competitive activities (see the pair of playthroughs of the Global Change Game they ran separating players between high and low RWA-score groups). Also increased gullibility (see the study on "Pseudoprofound BS"). It very much seems to be a developmental disorder that is contagious through the generations (much as there exists "the cycle of abuse"). The medical community is just unwilling to call a spade a spade here.
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  487.  @masterofrockets  you mean like how he's defended his supporting of white nationalists by saying that they are less objectionable to him because they wouldn't harm him personally?
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  488. The left: "if you want to support politicians who try to strip me of my human rights, we can't be friends" The right: "son, if you don't conform to my expectations for your gender/religion/sexuality, prehaps some time as a homeless teen will teach you to be who I tell you to be"
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  489.  @woobiefuntime  _as well. Also positioning. Also MIC profits. Also deflecting from Saudi Arabia.
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  490. It's almost like the weed was the excuse and the other mentioned characteristic (them being young) was what was the motivating factor?
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  491. Do any of the popular right-wing thought leaders mentioned in the video have consistency? No? Are people on the left like Kyle Kulinski consistent on free speech? Yes. Are you, yourself, pushing an inconsistent double standard? Yes.
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  492. This is 100% what she is doing.
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  493. There is no Hell. If we want him to see justice, we need to make sure he sees it here on Earth.
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  494. ​ @idontwantahandlethough one genocide vs multiple genocides is a hell of a thing to have to vote on, though.
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  495. Possible he was one of the increasingly rare people who supported Trump out of ignorance and was shocked by what he helped cause. Possible he was one of the officers who had to kill someone in action and couldn't handle the weight of taking a human life. Possible (if a stretch) he suffered some brain damage or injury he didn't want to live with. Possible he was already kinda on the edge and this pushed him over. Too little information to say anything about it, really.
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  496. They will never calm down. If we want them to sit down an be quiet, there need to be legal consequences for their actions.
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  497.  @jds614  pink's a well-known troll, btw. Nothing you can say to him matters. Logic and facts are irrelevant no matter the subject.
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  498. Even if that were true. The starting point of "fuck Zuckerberg. He's an untrustworthy douchebag who already has both too much power and displayed an unquenchable desire for more, so he needs to be blocked from this move to limit his power." is basically just a self-evident fact needing no further support to any informed person.
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  499. What's baffling? It all seems pretty straightforward to me.
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  500. Just another far right propagandist appropriating ideas. Nothing new there.
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  501. Remember Charletsville?
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  502.  @1MarkKeller  so the "temporarily embarrassed millionaire"
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  503.  @cadenrolland5250  you just failed at reading comprehension.
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  504. One problem though. Biden didn't fall for them. He was knowingly on the side of the liars. Frankly, anyone who was involved in politics who supported the war was either a liar or colossally stupid (and I include the entire media in that).
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  505. You're rather optimistic there...hope you're right, but....
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  506. Heirarchy and consolidation of power are the 2 core tenants of right wing ideologies.
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  507.  @Gmex_ONE  cognitive dissonance is easy. Humans do it all the time as a mental shortcut. Thinking about things at more than a superficial level and working to correct one's own cognitive dissonance is what takes mental effort...especially when one's constantly being gaslit by people like you.
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  508.  @snowblow1984  given that a lot of his projects are being at least in part funded by government grants, it's still that way, and Musk's dirrecting of that research into less important/viable dirrections isn't exactly a great thing either.
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  509.  @AndiDuck  so you're just going to glaze over that the DNC's rules demand they be impartial, the media collusion, and the illegal voter suppression (to say nothing of what's below that undeniable tip of the iceberg)? People like you who put party loyalty ahead of democracy are why I have to put quotation marks around "Democrats" and how we got to Hillary vs Trump in the first place. Stop thinking like a fucking serf. 1776 was a long time ago.
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  510. Nuremberg 2.0 when?
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  511.  @No_co_OK  what did I JUST say? Stop wasting people's time with your posturing.
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  512. Using them to deliberately overwhelm services may count as a DDS attack and/or interference with government function and therefore may be illegal.
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  513. Yes, yes it is.
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  514. ...ow my brain...
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  515.  @MrBlaq  if he had finished thr physics degree, he wouldn't have wasted money on the hyperloop BS...but then, government grants took the edge off that failed project.
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  516. Alternative possibility: it was an excuse to fire young people because Biden is ageist af kinda like a low-key version of how the Nixon administration created the war on drugs because they wanted to lock up black people and the anti-war left.
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  517.  @scrubjay93  you're oversimplifying. They sure don't want the left involved enough to win primaries or affect policy and (while it wasn't covered in my comment) they don't want minorities to have too much representation lest the GOP be relegated to the dustbin of history as they would no longer be able to use them as a threat to get people to vote for more conservative "Democrats" Also, Biden is legitimately ageist and that may be enough all on its own even if it's against his best interest.
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  518.  @GoDanReport  I'm not stupid enough to answer a loaded question that is pure projection, no.
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  519.  @GoDanReport  I did. You're just too stupid to understand, apparently.
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  520. What it's going to take is replacing them all with progressives because "centrist" Dems ARE moderate Republicans.
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  521.  @Ryman158  well, every decent country to live in has Bernie as a centrist at least...and every country that sees him as far left is a shithole in dirrect proportion to how common that belief is. Funny about that.
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  522.  @puffdaddy69  it is explicitly legal to enter the country to claim asylum.
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  523.  @puffdaddy69  the distinction you're trying to make is legally BS. It doesn't matter how an asylum seeker enters the country. You're just pushing talking points from racists.
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  524.  @puffdaddy69  the law explicitly allows it. I suggest you take your own advice.
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  525.  @JoeM347  just look up cost/kwh and you'll find an abundance of sources all saying the same thing.
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  526.  @JoeM347  pick a credible source. They're all saying the same thing. Heck, even just skim the Wikipedia page before spouting your lies.
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  527. ​ @akumakorgar hired is more appropriate...assuming, of course, that they took the job of their own free will. "Rented" would be appropriate if they had an "owner" if you get my meaning.
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  528. The right ALWAYS projects. There are no exceptions.
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  529. Humanist Report Secular Talk Rational National ?
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  530. They need to be thrown in prison for conspiracy to commit murder.
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  531. Yup. Ethnonationalism is always bad. It's not any less horrible when Jewish people do it as when others do it.
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  532.  @commandershepard9920  American "centrists" are conservatives is, I think, the point of that comment
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  533. 1st-the organization isn't a person. The people in the organization (including whoever is doing the preaching) can still vote. By your logic corporations paying taxes would give them a right to try and control the government. 2nd-Churches get a tax-exempt status on the condition that they remain nominally non-political (though there is no way for a religion to be truely non-political). It's quite simple to argue that promoting discrimination is an inherently political act that should loose them said status. (I'm personally rather tepid on the proposal, admittedly, but there is a solid foundation there to make that argument)
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  534. @I PUT MY BALLS ON YOUR DRUM SET no, you. You're the one pulling up statistics. One number without context or anything to compare it to is only useful for shock value and nothing more. You've only made half an argument. We can't even talk about it's validity until you can make the other half (and then provide where you're getting both). It's not on me to complete your argument for you.
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  535. @I PUT MY BALLS ON YOUR DRUM SET less posturing and more completing the rest of your argument please. One number+posturing=/=an argument.
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  536. The right ALWAYS projects. There are no exceptions.
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  537. To Bloomberg, if you don't have power, you're not a real person.
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  538.  @aarondickson1898  pathetic and desperate deflection
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  539. @Glenn the usual people: those with more money than morals.
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  540. Every neoliberal is responsible for the divide in the country, Obama included, by producing an economic system that fails working people and closing the door to left-wing politics. As easy as it would be to chock this up to race, what she's really unhappy about is that the peasants got the idea of change in their head (as if we didn't want it before 2008 because of the policies of people like her and Obama) and wants to go back to the times where they could enrich the rich, push the costs onto the working class, and no one would say anything about it.
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  541. Musk really isn't that smart. He just has enough money to throw at ideas others have thought up and a PR team able to make it look like he's innovating.
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  542. We are dealing with genocidal levels of ageism against the younger generations. Don't believe me? Just look at climate change.
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  543. We are dealing with genocidal levels of bigotry against the younger generations. Don't believe me? Just look at climate change for one of many examples.
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  544. I mean, if I was a copyeditor I would seriously consider taking his money and then fucking up the job. Just sayin'
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  545. ​ @severalwolves they really did. Keep reporting them.
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  546. ​ @brockreynolds870 you wouldn't say that about burn victims would you? No, because you're not bigoted against them.
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  547. Notice how exclusively contracts are anti-compeditive, market-distorting BS that's bad for everyone outside the contract? Maybe there's a problem there?
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  548.  @Johnywang1  it looks like a decades old idea of what the future would look like...which is the aesthetic Musk likes for his toys.
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  549.  @darkdan3379  "just vote blue" is how the "Democratic" party got taken over by the right wing and enabled the GOP to move far right. Every time we fall for the good-cop/bad-cop game we take a step closer to fascism, and have you looked around at how close we are?
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  550.  @darkdan3379  dude, the establishment "Democrats" are in many ways to the right of fucking Reagan. Are you actually disputing the rightward shift of the "Democrats" for decades??
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  551. AIPAC needs to be charged with conspiracy to commit jen o cide and have all its members arrested.
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  552. Lol 😆
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  553. It's not just Palestinians Biden doesn't see as fully human, either. See Iraq.
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  554. Musk's disgust at having to commute in the same vehicle as poor people is intolerable. If he keeps that attitude up after the next market crash, it's not unlikely he's gonna want to get that glass right.
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  555. TY! This celebrity tech daddy mythologizing needs to die!
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  556. The Lord told him to commit crimes because the Lord wanted him in prison.
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  557.  @williamriordan1619  just going to keep repeating the empty lie until people take it as truth, I see.
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  558. Twice
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  559. ​ @maxmeier532 way more efficient and less expensive than what we have
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  560. ​ @perryroberts4353 having a bigger country makes it EASIER to implement universal healthcare, not harder. Go learn what economies of scale are.
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  561. ​ @redvenomweb dog whistling as loud as a foghorn there. Take your racism elsewhere.
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  562.  @ASDeckard  funny how all the studies on the subject agree with me and say you 2 are full of shit
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  563.  @lennykazlauskas1101  water vapor? The thing that goes up as temperature rises, acting as a multiplier on all other warming causes? Even a child knows that a higher temperature means more evaporation. Why does this need explained to you?
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  564. As the trolls are demonstrating, fascists and white nationalists don't want the truth. They want an excuse, and history shows clearly for what.
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  565.  @akumakorgar  tbf, he said it multiple different ways at different times and trying to explain to most Americans what communism actually is feels like smashing your head against a brick wall...
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  566.  @SoundsSilver  so did the person who said it...sometimes. It wasn't always exactly the same every time he said it, so there are different versions floating around that are all accurate.
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  567. ​ @homelander7742 Compare? Quite easily. Both are situations of OBVIOUS human rights violations which rise not only to the level of crimes against humanity, but of the 1948 convention against G. Both inflict malicious psychological (and sometimes physical) trauma on populations denied their own bodily autonomy and which lead to massively disproportionate levels of early mortality. Both situations have created political refugees within our own country with the hotbed of the hatred being in the former Confederate states. You can draw plenty of comparisons without saying 2 things are perfectly equivalent in all ways.
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  568.  @davidgriffin9247  the first amendment contradicts the first commandment. You're completely full of shit.
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  569.  @jeffroberts6428  that's what our bar is? Not actively opposing climate change legislation. Might as well break out the guillotines if that's what our standards have sunk to.
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  570. I'm ok with churches being tax-exempt if they open their books and show they're meeting the standards of running as a non-profit that we require of any organization that we give a tax exempt status to.
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  571.  @biokido575  on the subject of genocide, both Ben and Trump are supporting genocides going on right now (the creeping one in Palistine and the even more active one in Yemen, respectively) Funny how you bring up points you don't actually care about. It's almost like you're arguing in bad faith and saying whatever you think will make your side look good without reguard for truth or hypocrisy....did you pick that one up from Ben?
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  572.  @biokido575  it is absolutely the case that the genocides I mentioned are happening and supported by said people. Hell, Trump even used his veto powers to make sure the US kept providing military aid to the one in Yemen, but that's inconvenient for you, so you deny genocides being committed right now in part with your tax dollars, once again proving that your side is always projecting.
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  573.  @biokido575  they are supporting the genocidal actions of those countries, so yes that is supporting genocide, you complete hack
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  574.  @biokido575  Trump vetoed a bill to stop giving Saudi Arabia the military aid they were using to commit said genocide and Ben Shapiro has repeatedly defended Israeli violence and illegal settlements. You're seeing, but refusing to acknowledge. Those aren't the same things. That's why I called you out for lying, not for ignorance.
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  575.  @biokido575  by your "logic" a company selling poison gas to the Nazis knowing what they were doing with it wouldn't be supporting the holocaust. Holy shit dude. Was it reason or the English language you just murdered in your last comment?
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  576.  @biokido575  and we have arrived, at last, at holocaust appolgea, as I expected. We're done here.
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  577.  @actaeondiomedes4270  you want to explain to me why one of the last things Obama did on the way out the door was to quiety expand executive power after Trump got elected and just leave it for him like some kind of housewarming gift? Get it through your head that the corporate "Democrats" are just playing good-cop/bad-cop on you.
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  578. Yeah, Nina and the 2 mentioned are really the only choices that come to mind. Bernie should not, however try to appease the establishment by picking someone they're more comfortable with. That's just asking for problems, and it's the primary, not the general, that is the big hurdle for him. Notice, btw, how the GOP basically never pics VPs more moderate than their Presidents, but establishment Dems basically always pick one to the right of their President? Food for thought.
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  579. Lol, a lot of people idolize Musk. What planet are you on?
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  580. Not unlikely.
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  581. ​ @FreshwaterSquid77 mrrf mffr mrmf?
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  582. @MomoTheBellyDancer wonderful company on your side of things, isn't there /s You're welcome to move over to the side intelligent enough to realize how stupid misogyny is any time.
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  583. @MomoTheBellyDancer misread something. Disregard my previous comment.
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  584. Really drug out the disinfo trolls and bots with this one. Must be something they really don't want us talking about
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  585.  @Nastara  ain't that the simple truth of it!
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  586. What a gross excuse for a human being you are!
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  587. woke, adjective: Originally: well-informed, up-to-date. Now chiefly: alert to racial or social discrimination and injustice How the far right uses it? The same way they use "cultural Marxism" and "cultural Bolshevism" before that. But Ben's going to keep pandering to a political movement that wants him killed.
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  588. If Musk was so great as science, he wouldn't have been pushing the hyperloop disaster, for example. He's not some magnificent inventor, sorry. He's just a rich guy with an expensive hobby.
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  589.  @tipsyMJT  so, just ignore that reusable spacecraft already existed and that all Musk did was throw money at some ideas people had in the past taking advantage of other peoples' inventions and his economic advantage so he could claim "first" on a technicality?
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  590.  @LauraIsPink  yeah well, we knew that was comming when the "Democratic" party put their thumb on the scale to make sure that a pro-Trump "Democrat" got the nomination instead of the more progressive candidate.
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  591. Not even. Emma is better than what Ana pretended to be.
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  592.  @spanqueluv9er  you keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means
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  593. ​ @UberNoodle watch me!
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  594. The left isn't trying to romance the right. LIBERALS are...and what else do we expect from them when they're also right wingers?
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  595. ​ @lawrence208  about as many academic fields reject the idea of a sex-equivalent, gender binary as reject young earth creationism. None support either. Sex≠gender, neither is a binary, and facts don't care about your bigoted feelings.
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  596. And they dare to act like they care about a mythological "free market". It's always been a lie. They just hate us and want us to suffer. It really is that simple.
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  597.  @garrymiller3171  not anything, just power
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  598.  @jamescooke7243  fact: letting kids transition massively lowers their suicide rates. You're the one who doesn't give a shit about children.
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  599.  @maybebabyny  they also often like paying less than minimum wage and a workforce unlikely to go to the police/osha/etc
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  600. Does? No Did? Yes His mental decline is pretty obvious (not that he was ever that bright or sane)
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  601. We wouldn't be having this discussion if we'd nominated a more electable candidate, but liberals just bought into all the electability lies in 2020 and voted for a war criminal nobody liked like that was the safest vote.
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  602.  @chrisb9345  if you don't understand that election integrity is non-negotiable, you can fuck off. Hillary is an election-rigging war criminal who would have shifted the Overton Window even further right, paving the way for someone even worse than Trump. If you can't understand how this good-cop/bad-cop game is played on us all, you have no business shaming others.
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  603.  @raysha9932  no one even knows what you were trying to say and have gone on talking to each other and ignoring you. Stop commenting drunk.
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  604.  @raysha9932  lol, no, how could anyone be mad when you have butchered grammar so hard that no-one even can tell what you're saying? Seriously, get your fluids and sleep the booze off. Don't make your coworkers pick up your slack tomorrow because you stayed up too late drinking and came in hungover. Personal responsibility, right?
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  605. Same way there are white Republicans: self-hatred projected outwards.
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  606. Then you don't appreciate how many Americans are actual fascists.
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  607.  00ProblemChild  MSDNC pretends to be the opposite to Fox "News" for one...
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  608. Someone's not "biologically male" when they're on estrogen. Estrogen makes people weaker and trans women are required to have lower testosterone than cis women in the Olympics. This idea that trans women have some great advantage is just a transphobic lie.
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  609. Musk wants to do everything he can to avoid the fact that the real solution to the transit problem is public transit because he's disgusted and terrified of sharing a ride with poor people.
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  610.  @taumus1  the transit problems Musk's proposals seek to "solve" aren't dealing with the rural areas, so you know that's a no-sequetor, at best, and at least a borderline strawman, right? Can we please stick to intellectually honest arguments?
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  611.  @richsackett3423  the only other candidate with a chance in hell of both winning the nomination and the general is Warren (aka Obama 2.0) and we already saw what a president that was a lot of progressive talk with no conviction did to the political discourse, shifting the Overton Window so far to the right that it paved the way for a protofascist. (& btw, one of the last things Obama did in his term, after Trump's election, was to quitely increase executive power which he never used, instead leaving it as a housewarming gift for Trump) By all means, if you want Warren to replace Trump's incompetent protofascism, get nothing significant accomplished, only to be followed by a full-blown fascist (the timing of which, btw, will make us miss the deadline to avert climate catastrophe), go ahead; double down on the blue no matter who strategy that brought us to Hillary vs Trump in the first place.
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  612.  @rezadaneshi  Bernie 2020 is the only sane choice. Everything else is either impossible or different degrees and flavors of terrible with a staggering death toll. People need to realize that 4 more years of Trump isn't even close to the worst possibility on table right now, that he is a symptom of the establishment (and thus, no establishment option can fix what is going on), and go all-in on Bernie.
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  613.  @pinkypony2598  when you poll the people, policy by policy, you get a platform that more closely matches Bernie's platform than anyone else. Way to prove you are spouting corporatist talking points though. How much are they paying you?
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  614. Wars get funded on the government taking out debt. Social functions get funded by ongoing taxes. (For the colloquial use of the term "funded" at least. If we ignore the absurdity of the federal reserve and how private banking creates money, the federal government spends money into existence and creates the universal demand that gives it market value while controls inflation via taxes)
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  615. "4. No syncretistic faith can withstand analytical criticism. The critical spirit makes distinctions, and to distinguish is a sign of modernism. In modern culture the scientific community praises disagreement as a way to improve knowledge. For Ur-Fascism, disagreement is treason." -Umberto Eco
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  616.  @frankmorton514  aw, that's helarious. I pissed you off so much with the truth in another comment, but you didn't have a good retort to that one so you dug up another post of mine from weeks ago, double posted, and that's the best you could bring? 😆 Sorry dude, but trying to believe that you're superior to others and can share credit for great accomplishments of the past because of the melanin content of your skin is never going to fix your self-esteem problems, nor are these pathetic attempts at trolling. Only therapy and self-improvement can fix the issues you're dealing with.
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  617. The line the progressives are holding is already a compromise on a compromise at best, but the people blocking it get portrayed as the "moderates" ffs
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  618. I think you misspelled MSDNC
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  619.  @luna-p  shall we start with the illegal, targeted voter disenfranchisement that was pled guilty to in New York? I mean, the list of things that would have gotten the primary results thrown out in a civilized country is long, but that seems like a good place to start.
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  620.  @yusefhasan7524  Hillary's only downfall was corporate money? You really believe that???
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  621.  @yusefhasan7524  I'm a social democrat significantly to the left of Bernie and I already pointed out a huge problem with rigging the primary (turns out, if someone rigs a primary against people using methods upto and including illegal voter registration purges, if not worse) people won't turn out for them, especially if they are overtly bigoted towards them like Hillary was towards millennials. Turns out if someone pushes for TPP as the "gold standard of trade deals" people who had their jobs outsourced through NAFTA which said politician also pushed for, the rust belt working class isn't going to turn out for you. I already mentioned the rigging part, but, just like Hillary, you don't actually want to listen to other people, proud of your incredulous ignorance while imagining yourself smarter than everyone else.
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  622.  Khashon Haselrig  as someone who relies on public transit to live my life and has neither a lot of money nor free time, I honestly care rather little if I throw back a fraction of the rudeness you showed to me in supporting such an insulting policy with essentially no thought, and if you're more concerned that I was crass in my reply than the arguments you were agreeing with, that says more about you than it does me. These are the kind of policies which drastically affect the lives of large portions of the population. Either think more before you support things or grow some thicker skin where you can still rationally consider counter arguments even if someone claps back at you a bit heated, because these aren't discussions without stakes.
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  623. Real answer (not her's): Every neoliberal is responsible for the divide in the country, Obama included, by producing an economic system that fails working people and closing the door to left-wing politics. As easy as it would be to chock this up to race, what she's really unhappy about is that the peasants got the idea of change in their head (as if we didn't want it before 2008 because of the policies of people like her and Obama) and wants to go back to the times where they could enrich the rich, push the costs onto the working class, and no one would say anything about it.
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  624. ​ @FreshwaterSquid77 dude, your subscriptions are public. We all know you're fash. There's no point in hiding or projecting. Just argue for your actual positions openly.
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  625. If we collapse, we fracture. If we fracture, the bible belt/former confederacy becomes its own nuclear armed country descending rapidly into right-wing extremism. Does that sound like a future you want?
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  626.  @ScottishRebel  you missed the part about "trains" designed to carry cars, didn't you?
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  627.  @macdunkin5332  there's only so much "less" a lot of the world can live with, and there are predictions of much of the equatorial regions of the world including the middle east becomming uninhabitable
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  628.  @macdunkin5332  oh, please don't get me wrong. I am painfully aware of the disaster that has been the US "helping" in the region. I'm just saying that if we don't meet the deadline to avoid the rapidly approaching tipping point there are areas of the world the will need to relocate, and, ultimately, we will likely need to put humanism above borders to address the problems we face.
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  629. It's not really going to be taken seriously until we start giving fossil fuel executives the Nuremberg treatment for their generational genocide.
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  630.  @mangobalaclava3329  A- in office buildings? B-that would be fraud and pretty obvious to find if they're saying they live in dozens of obviously empty properties.
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  631. ​ @CrapKerouac i'm $ure there are rea$on$
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  632.  @FemmiFatale  the problem is she's in a pretty rich, conservative-blue district. The attempt to primary her was noble but always a longshot.
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  633. You're assuming they're all honest actors there. I can guarentee you most that make their way here are not.
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  634. I mean, anyone want to bet on which side of politics most wife-beating happens?
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  635. ​ @michaelmontana251 wrong.
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  636. More expensive and slow to construct. Renewables now then probably 4th gen reactors in the future when those are ready for mass implementation.
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  637. This is no nightmare. Welcome to our dystopian present. What are you going to do about it?
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  638. Wait, you mean the ageist, right-wing Islamophobe was projecting her ignorance onto others? Who could have seen that coming???
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  639. I'll be voting 3rd party because anyone else with a chance at the nomination would just pave the way for an even worse far-right demogogue than Trump.
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  640.  @garetclaborn  and yet none of that makes what I said untrue. Nice try.
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  641. I can't give you a number, but everyone, including him knows it is "less than he has"
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  642. Same reason people listen to any fascist.
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  643.  @Cerulerouge827  think you're missing the point. It may have been better for the world if his friend hadn't pulled him from that car, is I think what was being said.
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  644. So tired of YouTube deleting my comments calling out lies and protecting other people's lies...
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  645. Oof, my sympathies
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  646. Part of me hopes he'll make it that long. Not to 2025 mind you, but if he could make it into 2024...maybe October, or just long enough to loose again.
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  647.  @Mitchthemysteryman  Bolsonaro is 100% a full-out fascist. You haven't done your homework on him if you think otherwise.
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  648. To support abortion prohibitions, one must argue against the bodily autonomy case, show the law to be effective at stopping abortions, AND show the thing being aborted to be a person (which is impossible before 20ish weeks). Good fucking luck to anyone who thinks they can argue even one of those.
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  649. ...I mean...there's a good argument to be made, that slavery was economically motivated and that racism, in turn, was in slavery motivated and then it just kinda got stuck in a circular feedback loop from there, but I don't even need to get past the preroll ads to know that's not the argument Crowder made.
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  650.  Rename Murder  being fascinating doesn't change it from being a Ponzi scheme fueled by the fact that everyone has been miseducated about money religiously teaching Adam Smith's long debunked hypothesis about money coming out of barter.
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  651. You know that whole "private ownership of the means of production" thing socialism is against? Take that, and turn it into a casino capable of crashing the world economy (which routinely does so every decade or so) and which people are pressured into betting their retirements on. On top of that, it's the thing every publicly traded company is legally obligated to put delivering as much money to as possible over all ethical considerations. All that and we haven't even touched on the rampant fraud as business model that is how it operates irl.
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  652. "Frustrating" isn't how I'd describe living in a society where I'm constantly being gaslit and surrounded by people who are bigoted towards me and have succumbed to said gaslighting.
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  653. Every thinking person involved in politics knew the Bush administration was lying because they kept changing their justification for going to war around and around between WMDs, Al-Quaida connections, and human rights justifications as soon as objections started to be raised to each.
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  654. Because they hate us and want us to suffer. No, I'm not joking or being hyperbolic.
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  655.  @onamove70  what happened is they're cowards and were so in fear that their brains turned off and they believed any lies about electability they were told.
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  656. ​ @JohnnyTheWolf-d3p nice try 5 month old Russia bot.
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  657.  @wasdwasdedsf  no correlation between CO2 and temperature? Holy fuck the reality denial is strong with you.
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  658. ​ @cyablu6538 found the Nazi
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  659. If we're going to do them, especially if we're going to do them all in one place, it's less destructive to do them consistently in the same place and I suppose Athens is about as good a place as you're gonna find for it I guess.
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  660. We already have a method for generating answers for random general knowledge questions. It's called "search engines". Jordan Peterson forgot GOOGLE Existed!
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  661.  tutenkharnage  got to it first, darn you
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  662. woke, adjective: Originally: well-informed, up-to-date. Now chiefly: alert to racial or social discrimination and injustice How the far right uses it? The same way they use "cultural Marxism" and "cultural Bolshevism" before that. But Ben's going to keep pandering to a political movement that wants him killed.
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  663. ​ @jojocatsitar6250 most? Citation needed.
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  664. Dore is a liability, at best. Exposing his BS is always productive.
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  665. ​ @MS-ns2pj weak ad-hom there bucko.
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  666. Haven't watched it yet, but Legal Eagle has a video on it and is usually my go-to for that kind of question
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  667.  @ivandafoe5451  a-viewing admitting uncertainty as discrediting is a very dangerous habbit and b-he focuses on the legal aspect, not getting into the other aspects of the thing, so saying he's justifying anything on any issue is usually an extreme stretch at minimum.
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  668.  @morenitomoreno1282  Poe's Law is real for a reason *looks right accusingly* But yeah, "/s" is your friend
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  669. That's what happens when you trust the people with weapons to protect you from angry peasants and yes, that's exactly how she looks at it, even if she doesn't use those words in her mind.
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  670. 🎯
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  671. But how else will Musk keep himself safe? He already avoids riding disgusting public transit to keep away from dangerous poor people, but after the coming economic crash, that may not be enough. He needs an armored car to survive the fallout of what his class is doing to the working class of the world. That is the emotional underpinnings of that vehicle and why it looks like something that takes inspiration from Mad Max and Cyberpunk. It's a physical manifestation of Musk's thoughts about the future.
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  672. This is a weird dichotomy to create. We don't need new laws to call and prosecute these people as terrorists. Also, we do need to go hard and prosecute as many as possible. Being tepid and conciliatory after an attempted fascist coup historically works out VERY poorly, only emboldening them to make a more successful attempt after they regroup.
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  673. ​ @iTHiNKiKEN taking the testosterone away takes the advantage away, weirdo.
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  674. ​ @Big-lron the Dems are a center-right party with a BUNCH of conservatives included. They're too far left for you because of how far right YOU have moved
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  675. The terrorism will continue until liberals start taking the threat of fascism seriously.
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  676.  @MeatbagTheMighty  The t_ism will continue until libs start taking the threat of fascism seriously.
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  677.  @mistercohaagen  I'm quite sure there are white supremacist and otherwise fascist factions in the CIA. It's the CIA ffs.
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  678. So Musk can have a cyberpunk-themed armored car to protect him from the revolting peasants after the next economic crash, yes.
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  679. Liberals wanted a warcriminal and that's exactly what they got. No forgiveness for those who opposed Bernie.
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  680. Emperor Scott Yee and it was largely funded by a Saudi prince....and they benefited from the resulting wars...
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  681. Because just like the flag and the Bible, it's just a symbol to consolidate power with. The content has never mattered to them. They're so obsessed with constantly trying to put themselves on top of a heirarchy, they can't understand that others actually aren't cynically using everything they can the exact same way. They're so devoid of believing in things like principles, equality, and truth, that they can't even imagine that you actually believe in them either. That's why every push for equality is taken as an attempt to put someone else on top and why they're so obsessed with seeing hypocrisy that they will imagine it where it doesn't exist. They need to imagine that the only difference between us and them is they're trying to put the "right" people at the top and we're trying to put the "wrong" people at the top. (For more, see Innuendo Studio's "always a bigger fish")
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  682. All corporate "news" is corporate propaganda.
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  683. Alternative possibility to make it make more sense: it was an excuse to fire young people because Biden is ageist af kinda like a low-key version of how the Nixon administration created the war on drugs because they wanted to lock up black people and the anti-war left.
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  684.  @tp3815  and how many others like him? But remember, the left are NPCs /s
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  685.  @gfys756  nope. Trump didn't get more votes. Dems got less.
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  686.  @gfys756  nah, he didn't get more votes than last time. It was that blue votes were down too, just moreso. What would have aged poorly is saying people like Kamala, which I never did.
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  687. @gfys756  then why did he get fewer votes than he did last time? And why are his rallies at record low attendance?
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  688.  @davidtieu4920  being able to accurately assess the current situation isn't pointless and everyone here (except maybe you) is calm as far as I can tell. What's your problem?
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  689.  @taumus1  non-sequetor and ad-hominem rolled into one. Fuck off.
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  690. Amazing how often bigots "conveniently" fail at basic understanding of the English language. It's almost like being a bigot makes someone stupid.
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  691.  @andrecarlo7692  wrong, bigot.
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  692. It was also wrong. Trump didn't loose to Biden. Trump lost to covid and his handling of the BLM protests. Without those unforseen events, Biden would have lost.
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  693.  @wvu05  yeah, the only defensible stance for voting 3rd party and letting the chips fall where they may is a non-quantifiable risk estimate that if we got Hillary, we'd be getting a fascist anyway, and Trump is about as incompetent of one as we could possibly get. Not a provable stance in any way, but at least something you can say you have an outcome in mind worse than Trump (the fascist Hillary would be paving the way for in that scenario), instead of pretending that Hillary (as awful as she is) would by herself, do more damage than Trump. This was, of course, not something I recall ever hearing from Jimmy or anyone like him for that matter....'cause he's (by his own admission) an idiot, so it was every stupid rationalization imaginable except the one that could actually not immediately fall appart once the emotions died down.
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  694.  @wvu05  I agree. I think you misunderstood what I was saying.
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  695. So by your logic, corporations paying taxes gives them a right to control the government? Sorry, that's a complete non-sequitur. Also, the constitution says nothing about exempting churches from taxes. We remove tax exempt status from churches already for a list of political actions. Adding some forms of discrimination to that list (while a policy I'm very tepid about) isn't really any kind of stretch.
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  696.  @grizzlybear3110   you don't see much of it because the Overton windows around the world have been shifting to the right for decades. Has that been a good thing for people overall?
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  697. Except Ben's not a libertarian. He's a fascist.
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  698. Counterpoint: even George Carlin made the point that talking in terms of "home" obscured the point and made people not see the problem clearly. Also, it's really not strange for academics to change terminology to be more technically correct, which "unhoused" is (along with being the same # of syllables). Why does an academic using precise language herself without policing the language of others upset you so much? That's really weird don't you think?
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  699. ​ @alex4594 very, VERY much so.
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  700. He is doing his job, though. His job is to keep people like AOC away from the levers of power and to capitulate to the GOP whenever possible.
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  701. Oh look, you have the pink troll on your side. Gotta be proud of that one, huh?
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  702. Why are we trying to boost that jackass?
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  703. If you want to see where most of the ageism is, look first toward all the bigorty the older generations dirrected toward the millennials. Hell, both the last 2 "Democratic" nominees were overtly contemptuous of the younger generations. Everything from that, to the 15ish years of solid headlines blaming millennials for everything to how it's as impossible to seperate the inaction on climate change from ageism as it would be to seperate the policy of appeasement of the 20th century from Europe's widespread antisemitism. (And that's just a fraction of the personal stuff, not even getting into the systemic level) Yeah, ageism is alive and well and the older generations need to cut it the fuck out before they ruin everything. Even in the story it was mentioned that Biden targeted young staffers for this, but you don't see that because of your underlying ageism.
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  704.  @scrubjay93  almost everyone over 45 I've ever known for more than 3 months has made some bigoted comment that let me know I was just "one of the good ones" to them (including but not limited to every "kids these days" comment which are still made about people in their 30s) and I vividly remember that decade and a half of headlines dragging millennials though the mud (which was almost entirely projection or complaining about things that were good) and can't remember the last election where the majority of the older vote wasn't going to destroying our futures (often with a "fuck you I got mine" attitude and/or an overtly ageist candidate) Hell, the "ok boomer" thing is the generational equivalent of "quit mansplaining" or "white noise" and came about for the same reasons: a demographic tired of being ignored, patronized, and talked over by another demographic with a bunch of people with the attitude that the mere fact of that demographic difference meant they were more of an authority to speak on a subject they knew little to nothing about because "how could they possibly know what they're talking about?" It's actually the opposite: ageism against millennials is harder to notice because of how incredibly pervasive it is.
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  705. Maybe in a ranking of most clever Ponzi schemes.
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  706. The likeable part is dependent on how good a judge of character you are. I find him obnoxious.
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  707. Watching this channel? No. In the American public? Sadly, yes.
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  708.  @darkcrystalmagik3369  idk, he's pretty fucking ageist too, so maybe if said male journalist were a millennial. Definitely not a white male journalist his age, though.
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  709. At this point, I'm more concerned if he ever plans to be gone, seeing as what would likely await him as soon as he leaves office.
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  710. It's not about competency. It's about greed. There's just more money on the right.
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  711.  @Gigika313  even if the only thing voting blue does is slow the country's slide into becoming a fascist dictatorship, that's still buying more time for other political action, and thus more useful than a 3rd party vote. Denying the GOP power has to be priority #1, and if they're made irrelevant, the "Democratic" party will split as has happened to parties in the past.
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  712.  @Gigika313  if we stop the rise of fascism and not that, we can still work on that goal. If we achieve that goal and fall to fascism, we're 100% fucked and any 3rd party you would want to push for would be outlawed and any political advocacy left of the "Democrats" would get you turned into a political prisoner or dead. You're completely out of touch with reality if you can't prioritize those goals correctly.
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  713.  @Gigika313  denying fascists elected office by making sure they loose the vote to whichever non-fascist they're running against at least buys more time for other methods of political action to bare fruit. If that means voting blue (and it usually does thanks to fptp voting), that's what needs done. The easiest path for fascists to seize power must be blocked for as long as possible, even if that isn't sufficient to completely stop them.
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  714.  @Gigika313  of course that was a "yes". I know what I wrote and it was pretty unambiguous. Congrats on passing the most basic and unintentional reading comprehension test? As to the rest, while the donor lists overlap, but aren't identical, and even if they were, them being equivalent wouldn't follow from corporations trying to buy influence in both parties. Your "argument" is a total non-sequitur.
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  715.  @SasquatchAtTheSpaceDisco  if I were to guess based on the comments of the only other person who's making a point of spamming hate comments about her, the answer is raging antisemitism.
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  716.  @roscoedash6673  it's called being a manchild.
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  717. Japan is such an odd case across the board that it usually makes a bad example. Overall point is correct, but unless you're trying to make a comparison to Japan being remarkable in some specific way, it's usually better to pick a different example because it gets super complicated super quickly.
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  718. They're evil.
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  719. America: 41% Nazi or Nazi-adjacent.
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  720.  @alex-qd6of  according to historians (including experts on concentration camps), people who have been held in other concentration camps, Jewish groups, and even Godwin of fucking Godwin's Law, yes, they do.
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  721. There aren't fine people on both sides. Zionists aren't fine people.
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  722. The demographic most likely to support Bernie is young black women.
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  723. Oh it is being burned intentionally...but by his supporters who he promised access to the resources under the forests.
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  724.  @mrgaudy1954  Poe's Law is real. "/s" is your friend.
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  725. There's nothing new about fascism
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  726. We did warcrimes which weren't excusable then either. There's never an excuse for g-cide.
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  727.  @SpoopySquid  that IS the argument he put forward, yes.
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  728. ​ @alix1493 learn to read
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  729. Don't though. It just increases the supply in the end.
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  730. Let's not mince words though. Tucker isn't a conservative. He's a Nazi.
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  731. Jokes aside, just taking good care of your health and skin can go a long way. If you're using moisturizer, well hydrated, getting enough quality rest, and eating well, it can do a lot for your skin, especially if you're in your 20s-30s. Making your skin a bit fuller smooths out wrinkles and when combined with getting rid of bags under the eyes and a better complexion, you can actually make yourself look a little younger for a while until the collagen breaking down outpaces what you can do. The real weirdness I don't understand is when someone hits old age and then just stops aging for like 10+ years.
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  732. Everyone should be allowed to vote for the simple reason that we cannot trust politicians with the power to strip any group of people of their right to vote. If they can, they will abuse that power. The right to vote must be inalienable.
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  733.  @eldridgedavis  things are never as good or bad as they could be. They can always be better and can always be worse.
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  734. I have occasionally watched him in the past (less so in the last year+), because he sometimes stumbles into things that are interesting enough for me to do research on that aren't part of the main discussions, but when he comes to the right positions, it's mostly from flailing around, so he's completely unreliable and no-one should be taking him at face value on anything, no matter how sincere he is being.
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  735. See, this kind of surreal behavior is what makes lizard people conspiracy theories seem almost plausible. Wtf are we even watching? These people don't even react like human beings to anything.
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  736. If you actually think some highshool kid is going to outgun a SWAT team because he has played some FPS's and has cover...wow
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  737. Most upvotes but pushed to the bottom of the comment section. Wow you "triggered" the chuds there! Well done!
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  738.  @amrahmed7856  that was just the impression the media wanted to give. For why, jusy look to their advertisers and realize, for example, that Boeing isn't looking to sell passenger jets from their TV ads. (Or read manufacturing consent)
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  739. As Cornell West has correctly called him out as.
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  740. +
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  741.  @JosephMetts  the big bang and evolution are absolute facts of reality. Sorry if they hurt your feelings.
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  742. Just like Musks multistory tunnel network nonsense caters to the desire of rich narcissists like him to avoid the simple truth that the answer to the traffic problem is public transit because they don't want to share rides with poor people?
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  743. Their plan is for there to be no more Palestinians.
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  744. He's an ethnonationalist. It's what all of them eventually do.
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  745.  @SusanPDavis  stop spamming your scam
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  746. I'm more familiar with the shortest split line method. Is there a good overview you know of for the at large districts method of eliminating gerrymandering?
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  747.  @steverigney7017  false, and yes, wiki is about as accurate as any other encyclopedia.
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  748.  @steverigney7017  you made a false assertion that was only worthy of a 1 word response, so that's all you got. And yes, Wiki is accurate. Look it up.
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  749.  @TechnoGeek18023  many are also guilty of treason for giving the Saudis weapons we knew were going to Al-Quaida.
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  750.  @chrisalan3307  😆😆😆😂😂😂
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  751. Now if only us leftists could wake liberals up to what needs to be done about them.
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  752. ​ @ryanhubbard1885 lies
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  753. Vote for someone that endorsed Trump over the best chance we have to move the Overton Window away from fascism? Hard pass.
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  754. A wealth tax that doesn't force someone like Bloomberg to liquidate assets isn't high enough. Them not having so much economic power is a huge part of the goal.
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  755. Hahahahaha
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  756. I think you forget even just the last Pope, sitting on a gold throne and telling people in Africa that condoms spread AIDS (to say nothing of the Vatican's alliance with Nazi Germany)....and that's just a major denomination within the lifetimes of people alive today.
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  757. It shouldn't even fill a white person with ease. Just because the police state is more dirrected against black people doesn't mean any except the elites are safe from it.
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  758. ​ @alexmipego if it sinks it will have all the cooling it could ever need.
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  759. @jshowa o they do give a shit though. They want him to do this so that when they throw him under the bus for doing what they always wanted to do, the establishment can look as superficially different from him as possible. He's a superb patsy, the best.
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  760. ​ @Ricky-g6i Reported for hate speech and misinformation for your lies.
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  761. He's bypassing Congress to send weapons to Israel to kill civilians. His hands are stained with blood.
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  762.  @macaron3141592653  the Catholic church (for example) rakes in a lot of money. It just funnels it up the ecclesiastical hierarchy.
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  763.  @seanmatthewking  women regurally get at least as uncomfortable medical screenings of their sensitive parts earlier and at significantly higher rates than men. Beyond men's general relative reluctance to get medical care, yes, growing up steeped in a homophobic culture is the difference. Just look how heterosexual men will frequently see even the suggestion of a woman (consentually) doing anything to their butt in the bedroom not just as something they might personally not be into, but as a challenge to their masculine heterosexual identity or how you, yourself, phrased your incredulous comment in sexual language. That's why the gender most conditioned to "just tough it out" is most likely to avoid that particular discomfort: because it's not just about the physical discomfort. While overt homophobia definitely accounts for some of the statistics, you don't even need to personally hate gay people for the homophobia of our society to fuck with your thought processes and (especially if you're not aware of it) consequently your actions.
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  764.  @connielingus8385  see my reply to Sean
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  765. Well, if they'd rather loose to Republicans than win with Progressives then no, they'll just blame progressive voters for the losses. We need to do work shifting the political landscape to make something like that viable (and even more, like putting in ranked choice voting or some other comperably massive shift) to make it prudent.
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  766.  zama202  we will write the history books to tell future generations about the boomers. Have fun living out the rest of your life aware of that fact ;)
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  767. That's not at all true. She's also in it for ego and power.
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  768. His government's own laws are extremely clear on what the punishment for his crimes should be, along with everyone complicit
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  769. All coffee in a MSM studio gets spiked with koolaid if left unattended.
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  770. Pink is a well-known troll. Just ignore it
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  771.  @haroldjones8521  well, it was through implication, but he already did what you predicted and it took all of 15 minutes. 😆
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  772.  @Hallahanify  and that balance only grows in value when more people spend money on the same cryptocurrency. Mind looking up the definition for a Ponzi scheme for me?
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  773. The Dems are absolutely an organized political party. They are organized AGAINST US!
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  774. The Dems are nothing if not organized... AGAINST US!
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  775.  @ngotemna8875  no, but it's a bit unusually bad this time around. Usually it's just lesser war crimes that both are guilty of.
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  776. You're projecting YOUR personal failings onto others. Stop.
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  777.  @juliewake4585  because it's an issue of human right, obviously. You either support them or you don't.
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  778.  @bruskqadir6208  oh look, a Nazi thinking he can blend in.
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  779.  @boxhedge22  yes they are. In the US, for example, they are disproportionately represented at protests AGAINST Z_. while Christian Z_s are the main problem. You're just antis_.
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  780. Luckily, with mrna vaccines out and ready, that hopefully won't take too long
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  781. No worries there for me, I'm neither an idiot nor going to vote for someone who displays overy contempt for my demographic.
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  782. ​ @qjtvaddict no, while there is a massive overlap, they are different terms with different definitions.
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  783.  @r-pupz7032  I mean, there's an idiot or 2 and I find the format cringy in 2019, but it would be a great way to start dragging boomers back from being so strongly right wing if we could get them to watch it.
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  784. And there is plenty of stronger glass out there in the world already....including stuff designed to stop bullets. Does he think that putting some mid-strength glass on a frame that looks more like it's designed to appeal to what the 90s thought a futuristic car might look like than practical converns is innovative? Once again, not buying this rediculous performance of a rich kid trying to show off his expensive toys.
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  785. Fools mistake kindness for weakness.
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  786. Why would a company like Boeing advertise on the TV if not to buy control of the narrative to make it more hawkish? Case nailed shut.
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  787. He's using the American definition of "corporatist lapdog"
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  788. Oh please, he does what he does out of ego, not altruism, and a lot of the stuff he's selling is total BS.
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  789.  @taumus1  electric cars are a BS solution to problems best solved by public transit and you know full well I was talking about his rediculous sci-fi proposals, not electric vehicles in general. Again I ask you to argue honestly.
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  790.  @taumus1  so you can't argue honestly or even honestly represent anyone's position that falls outside the traditional model. You sound like a fucking conservative dude. You know that right?
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  791.  @sadgegamer6643  so, he's a scumbag because he gave you proof that the "Democratic" party rigged their primary against us? Think you have your priorities backwards there.
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  792. And how is that different, exactly? Voting for someone with the blood of thousands on their hands because the alternative is even more needless death is what you have been doing the whole time. I dare you to tell me otherwise.
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  793. Is there ever any time in which exclusivity clauses are NOT something that should be illegal?
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  794. How much are they paying you?
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  795. What part of "more extreme weather of every kind" is difficult for your pea brain to understand?
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  796. ​ @alexpkeaton4471 _alive.
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  797. Yup! Every thinking person involved in politics knew the Bush administration was lying because they kept changing their justification for going to war around and around between WMDs, Al-Quaida connections, and human rights justifications as soon as objections started to be raised to each. You don't, for example, need to know the status of Iraq's WMD program to know that when the UN inspectors said "give us more time" and suddenly the reason to attack became something else to know they were just looking for an excuse and when they went back to the WMD narrative several times before the UN inspectors had given a report, it should have been obvious that the excuses were all lies. Every politician and journalist that supported the war is either complicit, or far too stupid to have their job. There is no 3rd option.
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  798. ​ @ronpickings7776 not even pro-fetus as they oppose everything that would actually lower abortion rates (like sex ed). They JUST want to punish women for sex. That's it!
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  799.  @PhuckEwerself  the algorithm hid your comment
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  800. @FieryReign this is a terrible idea. Just look at the history of qualification tests for voting. Btw, IQ is hugely effected by the quality or your education and socioeconomic status.
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  801.  NotGonnaTell MyName  What you're missing is that Biden will basically guarentee a Trump 2.0, who will be worse and oversee us flying right past the climate change deadline. Trump is a symptom. More of the disease will do the opposite of treating it. What will put us in a better position to win in 2024 (because that's our last chance before things get so messy that this year will look like nothing).
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  802. Just as conservatives build a political ideology out of the appeal to tradition logical fallacy, so do "centrists" build an ideology around the golden mean fallacy.
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  803. Yay, exposed the right and got the library newer copies of the books. Thank you dumbass.
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  804.  @Gmex_ONE  thanks, but I'm not interested in following your deflection from your claim being the exact opposite to the truth and you being unable to defend it.
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  805. ​@chingiskhan4709 as if the people who are anti-labor are ever truly anti war.
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  806. Yeah, rather than trying to kill as many kids as possible with their last moments, they could bunker down and get in a standoff with police until a SWAT team comes in and uses their training, equipment, and numberical advantage to outfight a highschool kid (or the kid gets talked down by a police negotiator). I fail to see the problem there.
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  807. Warren is talking better. I'll give her that, but Obama talked well and then normalized most of Bush and paved the way for Trump.
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  808.  @Metonymy1979  they're obsessed with ad-homs.
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  809. For the same reason that he wants an armored car. He's worried about getting attacked by revolting peasants in a near-future cyberpunk dystopia (perhaps minus the full cyber part)
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  810. @Dawid XCX nope, it still means the same thing. The harm done was done by MRAs telling people that a term designed to help men and the idea that went with it were an attack on masculinity itself. You want to see who's hurting men? Look in a mirror.
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  811. Well, I won't blame any politician who didn't have access to that classified information, but that's not all politicians.
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  812. Ha!
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  813.  @AlsadsajsAlsadsajs-vl7th  it means exactly what it says: making money without actual, active work.
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  814. It's not about solving anything. The idea is to decrease the number of deaths when it does. Mitigation and solutions are different things.
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  815. You still live on the same planet. You think you're safe? Think again.
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  816.  @riverdean7  I just hope you're at least consistent with your rejection of medical science and committed to never going to see any doctor or take any medication that doesn't come from the homeopathy isle no matter how sick you get. Don't come crying to the people who believe in the science you reject when your dangerous delusions become inconvenient for you. Take personal responsibility and accept the consequences no matter how bad they may be.
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