Comments by "DynamicWorlds" (@dynamicworlds1) on "The Jimmy Dore Show" channel.

  1. If you're making enough that you're paying 30k/year, you're doing better than most of us, so stop fishing for sympathy. Not saying you're rich (CA's taxes and cost of living are high) or that I'm not glad to have you on our side (assuming you are), but it sounds really whiny.
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  2. It wouldn't matter. Maher's a corporate shill and a unabashed tool for the DNC. Don't waist your time on him.
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  3. Don't forget Israel and Saudi Arabia in that list
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  4. Karen Skinner rig a primary by (at minimum) disenfranchising a particular group and you should expect they won't turn out for you in the general. That's just a fact of human behavior. Treat them with contempt and scorn, and it's also a fact that you're going to make a lasting grudge. It's amazing how many establishment folks just don't get this.
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  5. Considering the corporate dems seem to hate democracy so much, I'd argue THEY'RE not real democrats, but it's not worth wasting my breath on them.
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  6. https://www.quora.com/Why-dont-white-people-know-what-it-is-like-to-be-poor?share=1 1st comment sums it up pretty well. I'm poor, white, and (while I wish he hadn't said it) am completely unoffended because I'm able to use context to read past an unfortunate choice of words to understand what he was trying to say. Instead of quote mining to try and misrepresent someone's position, you should try it sometime.
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  7. +Paulie Walnuts besides expanding unconstitutional Bush policies and ensuring nearly all gains of the "recovery" went to the rich? Let's see, Dakota Access Pipeline, no substantial action on climate change, enabling the GOP to hold this country hostage multiple times, not prosecuting the bankers and war-criminals, helping shift the political spectrum further right (enabling Trump's rise), torturing Manning and exiling Snowden (American heros), continuing to enflame violence in the middle east (getting more of our troops killed for nothing), etc Have you only been listening to his rhetoric the past 8 years or actually paying attention to what he's done?
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  8. Thank you. In a world where they seem to be using his work as an instruction manual (rather than the warning it was intended to be), we need Orwell quotes more than ever.
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  9.  @chippypills  really? That's the false equivalence you want to go with???
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  10. Who cares? Both are fatal. We're well past the point where debating who's worse has any value. We MUST defeat BOTH.
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  11. Yes Please!
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  12. Greg's Kitchen [unsupported claim]
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  13. +Proud IrishAmerican Yup, though as a sidenote, this (and overbooking in general) coming back to bite them is their own fault, so any price they need to raise it to to get someone to voluntarily leave should be what they have to pay. In buisness, if you screw up, you're supposed to eat that loss, whatever it is. You sold too many tickets? Well, now you need to buy them back at the lowest price someone is willing to sell at. That's fair. Deal with it, or don't overbook. It's not just the ticket you're taking from them, but a lot of their time on short notice. They get to set the price for that.
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  14. No, but he is what Bill Maher pretends to be.
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  15. Hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahano
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  16. Americans still sadly think like serfs looking for a leader to rule them, rather than like true citizens looking for representatives to serve them. Even more broadly, the way most treat celebrities is disgustingly childish. Just this idol worship where people are put on pedestals and need to be forced to view them as anything less than perfect is something humans are meant to grow out of, but our culture is great at keeping a lot of the population as children all the way from birth to grave.
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  17. Gandalf the white I'd argue that Obama just caused the left's anti-war movement to realize it was a lost cause until we took back our government, so the effort was redirected.
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  18. Anyone else notice him fiddling with his wedding ring twice really early on and then trying real hard to not do it again (until he put his hands under the desk, where he probably went right back to that). I don't want to read too much into that because it could mean several different things, but that's sure an interesting guilty tell, I gotta say!
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  19. It's important to understand there isn't just one evil behind the curtain, but yes, they're attending the banquet back there.
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  20. Lmao!
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  21. There have been laws signed by both the current and previous administrations, as well as that Orwellian "due process doesn't mean judicial process" nonsense, but the constitution is still pretty clear on the subject.
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  22. Paulie Walnuts -Dakota Access Pipeline is an environmental catastrophe waiting to happen (not even counting the increasing dependence on oil), a use of police brutality against peaceful protesters and journalists on behalf of private interests, a violation of Native American rights, and you expect progressives to be for it? -"Treat climate change as a WW2 level threat." Do massive investment in renewable and nuclear for a start. There are plenty of things we can do as one country if we have the will. -"Obama and the Democrats were stubborn pricks" hahahaha yeah, we're done here. You're either completely deluded or a troll
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  23. As long as thet beat progressives in the primaries and stop the rise of a 3rd party, they still get paid.
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  24. Minder666 lead makes people stupid and violent...yeah, that checks out
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  25. "Politician's are like diapers; they should be changed frequently, and for the same reasons."
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  26. We're talking about the guy who started the war on drugs, knowing pot wasn't significantly harmful, so he could destroy black and liberal communities and lock them up so they couldn't vote. He was the prologue to the mess we're in right now and helped pave the way for Reagan who really got shit rolling in the wrong direction, so don't give the asshole too much credit.
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  27. Because the system is thoroughly rigged against independents too. Damned if you do, damned if you don't.
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  28. Thing to understand about the US is that so-called "free market capitalism" is a damn religion over here even more than Christianity, and that's saying something because the US is VERY Christian. We've even managed to equate blind consumerism with patriotism. Once you mentally frame the cultural mindset in those terms, the behavior makes sense. (Though "thankfully" people have been getting fucked hard enough for long enough that that mindset it starting to crack...with help from Bernie un-demonizing the term "democratic socalist" and the millenial generations being spared a lot of the cold-war brainwashing)
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  29. Mike C nonononono If votes can be linked to specific people, all sorts of bribery and intimidation tactics become viable. Votes must be anonymous, no exceptions.
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  30. There are plenty to watch without even the mentioned channels, the YouTube algorithm is just hiding them from you to create a bubble to tell you what you want to hear.
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  31. Enrique Vivanco I've known this years before I could vote. The willful ignorance of the US baby boomer generation is something else though. That's why political change is comming at the pace of generational overturn.
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  32. they're not even demanding unity. Unity would encompass aspects of all components. They're demanding assimilation and blind obedience and calling it unity.
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  33. Just because you say it, doesn't make it true. Find me even one hypothetical matchup poll that has Trump beating Bernie.
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  34. The main thing I see is this BS of having a human behind the wheel to take over stopping accidents making it safer. It doesn't. For a human to prevent the accident, they have to realize that the computer is not going to react, choose the correct action to make (brake/swerve/etc), and then do it. Let's be generous and say they're only going 35mph and respond with 0.5s reaction time. (Considering most humans have a 0.3s reaction time for something they're anticipating rather than only realizing the AI isn't going to take action when it's too late, that's generous.) That comes out to traveling over 25 feet past where you needed to stop. Either your AI can drive a car or it can't. I'm all for self driving cars, but this idea that a human is going to step in and prevent a disaster is a fantasy. Also, can we not pretend it's going to be fucking uber that makes that breakthrough? It's going to be a company with a long history of AI, Robotics, or both that will develop it and then sell them to companies like Uber. The kinds of software they're used to dealing with are highschool projects compared to what you need to make a safe self-driving car, so they need to just be fucking patient and keep their programmers on less dangerous projects.
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  35. Stunning professional spin artist into silence for that long is quite an achievement. Gotta give the man credit for that
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  36. Cenk has never been able to control Jimmy from day one and both know it. That isn't changing any time soon.
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  37. Please keep repeating this. A lot of people on the left are planning to vote for Tulsi and that isn't good for the left this time. Tulsi 2028 is something I really want to see, allong with her as VP/SoS, but we need to lock in a Bernie win to use the momentum we got in 2016. Strategically, Bernie is the better choice and that's not a lesser evil argument because, while no candidate is flawless, Bernie and Tulsi are both on the non-evil side of things.
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  38. Denise Devoto the shit they'll say once Zuckerberg runs for office. that's going to be stomach-turning. Mark my words on that one.
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  39. Only occasionally, but yes, they used to.
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  40.  @e8iMm7KE999  or, you know, use an election system that doesn't use fucking coinflips!
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  41. J L here's one plan for it https://draftbernie.org/hq27v2/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/From-Resistance-to-Revolution-The-Case-for-a-Peoples-Party1.pdf Our system has always been a 2-party system, but that doesn't mean that upsets aren't impossible. The fact that the Whigs are consigned to the history books is proof of that (and not the only time it's happened. Even just the threat of being overtook by a 3rd party can influence change by making support from actual progressives conditional rather than a given. As for the threat of media coverage, we've already seen it, and no-one trusts the MSM anymore, so being totally silent on the most popular politician in the country running for president would only push people further away from them. I believe a 2-pronged approach is better than putting all our eggs in one basket, and overtaking with a 3rd party is certainly hard, but it's not actually impossible in 2020 (though was in the climate of 2016 without an INSANE level of screwup by both establishment parties)
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  42. Doktor McNasty bits are bits and volume is volume reguardless of source. Slowing one site while leaving the rest of the internet faster is inexcusable.
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  43. My gut says that the timing is suspicious, but random timing can appear suspicious by coincidence. If I may steal a quote; I believe in coincidences. Coincidences happen every day, but I don't trust coincidences.
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  44. Sanders supporters are far more likely to maintain their own political oppinions and just flatly state disagreement with him while maintaining support. That's not worship, that's just not waiting for perfection to get someone good in. Don't mistake enthusiasm for obedience or worship.
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  45. By the way, it's the same big club they use to beat you over the head all day long when they tell you what to believe. All day long beating you over the head in their media telling you what to believe, what to think, and what to buy. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i5dBZDSSky0
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  46. Kaze most ISPs are those huge ISPs due to anti-compeditive collusion, high entery costs into the market, and bribing of local governments. Most people get to choose between 2-3 of the mega corps if they have any choice of provider at all.
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  47. +Peter Ernst Actually, even if you ignore the unconstitutional actions, election fraud, and selling out of national interests to multinational corporations for legalized bribes, there's still bits that fit the legal definition of treason. For example, arming Saudi Arabia knowing full well that they're arming Al-Qaeda does actually fit even the very narrow legal definition. (and conducting war in a way that only increases support for terrorist groups does in spirit if not letter) "Whoever, owing allegiance to the United States, levies war against them or adheres to their enemies, giving them aid and comfort within the United States or elsewhere, is guilty of treason and shall suffer death, or shall be imprisoned not less than five years and fined under this title but not less than $10,000; and shall be incapable of holding any office under the United States."
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  48. As long as they get your vote, they don't care how upset you are. "Holding their feet to the fire" only works when they actually believe they're going to loose votes (so "always vote dem and then make a lot of noise" is nonsense) AND winning is a higher priority than pushing the interests of their doners. Neither is true with establishment democrats.
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  49. robb How's voting for the lesser evil been working so far? It's got a lot of rhetoric behind it, but it's proven to be a loosing long-term strategy.
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  50. I already swapped my registration to independent at drop dems day, and despite living in a closed primary state, I doubt I'll change it back with how willing the party was to rig their own primary. They've proven that they have no interest in even pretending to represent people like me or listen to what we have to say, so there's really no point in being a Democrat anymore, even in name only.
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  51. That's how we treat a lot of the larger corporation here in the US too, where they can pay no taxes at all depending on how they can abuse the loopholes that were set up for them.
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  52. hoodiewoman louisiana only because their most recent big leak was on the DNC. Once that changes they'll be right back to doing hit pieces on him. I just watch Secular Talk because Fox is intolerabe and it's impossible to tell when the grains of truth end and the ocean of lies begins. As the establishment Democratics have become just like Republicans, there's also another fairly reliable trick to tell roughly what they're doing. Assume they're projecting whenever they accuse anyone of anything, and if it sound even remotely plausible work off the assumption it's true. That sounds like a joke, but it has like a 90-95% accuracy rate with the GOP, and the establishment Democrats are becoming indistinguishable from them. (I'd guess they're at like 80%, and rising)
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  53. Somehow for these people, economies of scale somehow magically disappear when it's inconvenient for business interests to talk about them.
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  54.  @Dakarn  defense from what, exactly? Most conflicts our military has been involved in since WW2 have been offensive and/or fighting enemies we created (and often armed). On top of that we could make huge cuts and still outspend Russia and China combined. Unless we really want to go Axis powers with Israel and Saudi Arabia and take on the rest of the world (not saying we're not trying to do that) a military this big isn't of any use to our country, and certainly more than we (and our real allies need for defense).
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  55. Ha! I was trying to put that kind of evil into words, but I don't think I can top that.
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  56. Orion Stellar exactly. Her lies are so transparent she can't even make people think SHE believes them if they take just 2 moments of honest reflection.
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  57. Vinícius Ferrenberg I'd argue Iraq is worse, though that's damning too
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  58. Yolo Solo and interstate crosscheck took WAY more people off the rolls than that AND way more democrats voted Trump than Green (though FAR less than voted McCain in 2008). If Bernie can get through the primary in 2020, I'll almost certainly still vote for him despite the DNC being intolerable. It would be a great position to reshape the party from and clean house.
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  59. Let's not forget, more Hillary voters voted for McCain over Obama than Bernie voters voted for Trump over Hillary (and most of THEM weren't democrats to begin with) To make it worse, Obama and Hillary were FAR closer on policy than Bernie and Trump and the 2008 primary wasn't rigged, AND Obama wasn't sneering at Hillary voters after the primary and acting entitled to the office....so yeah, they consider defeating progressives more important than defeating republicans, full stop.
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  60. Nun Ya "leftists" The establishment dems aren't left
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  61. Well, means that half of what they deliver to me or more will be thrown out due to dietary issues, I'll be delivered a bunch of shit I'd never buy, and never be delivered things in the amounts I use them in, leading to a LOT of food waste, all taken from the tables of poor people. All this to punnish poor people and to let food mega corps have another thing to bribe politicians over (being what gets put in the shipments). This isn't about the budget either. A possible (and doubtful) reduction of the costs of SNAP, is a tiny part of the budget, and we could knock far more off the program's costs by raising the wages of the working poor than this anyway.
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  62. if it was government run, it would be by definition....just sayin'
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  63. It's creepy because you haven't drunk enough "koolaid" to suppress countless generations of evolution telling you "this person is lying and is working against my interests" It's a natural defense mechanism you shouldn't ignore.
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  64. Did anyone really thing she cared about democracy after she rigged the primary? Really?
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  65. Garry Lafferty She says she has doubts about the TPP after getting heat for pushing for it repeatedly and has an extremely long track record of lying and doing whatever her doners want.  If you think she's really against it, you're a fool. Neither should be president.
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  66. Tychoxi fiat currency isn't based on trust. That way of thinking traces back to some disproven assumptions about how money originated made by Adam Smith. Money as we know it wasn't made as a way to grease the wheels of barter economies (which, btw, never existed), but as a way to pay public servants (originally soldiers , but expanded to other people since). Whether in tokens made out of rare metals (ex: gold coins) or slips of paper, currency is essentially a bunch of IOUs representing the society's debt to those working in the public sector who make their way of life possible, and taxes are both the acknowledgement that said debt has been paid (dirrectly or indirectly) and creates the near universal demand for the currency which gives it its value. No trust involved, or precious metals needed (as we later figured out once we had decent anti-counterfeiting measures). Unless adopted as a national currency, cryptocurrencies have no stable demand to create underlying value and make them a real currency, and no nation in their right mind would adopt them because of their numerous inherent problems (not the least of which is that once you "mine" all of them, you'll hit deflation every time your economy/population grows because you can't expand the currency supply)
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  67. Can't disenfranchise people in the primary and expect the same people to turn out for you in the general. Doesn't work that way, and I don't get what's so complicated about that... Or right, agism. If circumstances were different and she'd treated black people the way she's treated millenials, that we'd even be having this conversation? (Much less that the people she rigged the primary against would be shamed for not turning out)
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  68. Psychopaths make up about 1% of the general population but 25% of CEOs (likely similar or higher numbers for politicians, though I haven't seen data on it) A system that puts profits before ethics and competition over cooperation will always trend toward this result. (And this is in addition to the system promoting psychopathic behavior in normal people and filtering OUT those that would keep this all in check) Best we've come up with so far is to limit the power any one person can have and make those with more power than normal beholden to the masses below them. (This creates a circular, rather than linear, power structure that is less open to gross abuse) Even this, however is proving insufficient (though it's also true that our corporate structures are more analogous to fuedal hairchy than modern political systems abd have taken over said political systems)
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  69. "Deep State" is a term that has been in politics well before Trump.
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  70.  @steveschweichler9047  show me a large corporation that doesn't mismanage funds or deliver services worth less than they charge. You pretend that beurocratic inefficiencies only exist in government programs and that somehow market forces are going to magically protect you from an amoral entity which you don't get to vote in and which is legally obligated to make as much profit as possible from behaving badly. Guess what though. Countries which don't run their healthcare using for-profit death pannels have better outcomes at lower prices, and even in the US with our incredibly corrupt government, our public healthcare programs deliver more care/$ (meaning less skimming and administrative costs) than private insurance companies. Stop treating economics like a fucking religion and making an idol out of the invisible hand. It's disgusting.
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  71. VengfulDarkness Kyle from Secular Talk was reporting it durring the race too, and he's not right wing.
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  72. Randy The Wild Horse cable tv should just disappear. It's an outdated way of watching video content. Internet lets you watch what you want, when you want. Cable TV is obsolete.
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  73. Gavin Erickson just like daddy Peterson
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  74. @Rank Amateur nice comment, but likely a waste of time. I think I smell cryptofascist in sparrow's choice of words.
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  75. Styy Hawk it does, I did it to all the major ones back when they started pushing them a couple months after the big apocalypse, and have been periodically blocking their small subsidiaries' channels since. Wft are you talking about?
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  76. Yup, that's how the game is played. Glad I'm not the only one who sees that.
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  77. People in power are not just as likely to commit "disgusting acts". They're MORE likely. Power attracts those with looser morals (see the rate of psychopathy being at least 20x higher in CEOs), people consistently behave less ethically in positions of power, and having power gives you more oppertunity to do such with less chance of being caught.
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  78. Wow, they just flooded you trying to blame the left immediately nice going calling it
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  79.  @cesspool1676  have you noticed that the same party that wants to control women's bodies, decide who you can marry, increase surveillance, and force their religion on you is the same one trying to strip government regulation of markets away? Why do you think that is? You think that maybe the "small government" rhetoric is just there to trick you into allowing the establishment of a moneyed aristocracy to replace the titled aristocracy of the past. How about you go read what Jefferson had to say about banks doing as they please if you want to go quoting him at me.
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  80. The lunatics are running the asylum we call our world. That's our reality.
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  81. Aria I was there on Iraq, but yeah, Syria too
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  82. _willingly.
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  83. When the oligarchs are removed from power, they're tried for treason, and the entire election system is redesigned from the ground up. It won't be easy or quick, but it's a fight we must win for the sake of our nation and the world.
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  84. 2 prongs of the same skewer trying to move the people to the grill for the rich to eat.
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  85. We should really just abolish sales tax and raise corporate taxes (especially through closing loopholes) to make up the revenue. It's a regressive tax and takes far too much bookkeeping and paperwork to keep track of. Also, if you have the corporate tax based on where the money was made, rather than where the company is based, you do away with a lot of tax dodging schemes and can then easily have states get the income from their own corporate taxes without chasing businesses away.
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  86. TBH, I expect youtube will have to collapse by people getting sick of it and just stopping watching (or it going bankrupt) before new platforms can truly grow. I'm very close to saying that we all need to bite the bullet and adblock while heavily supporting content creators through patreon if we want them to survive the collapse sheltering on other platforms. We didn't get the rise of mammals until the dinosaurs went extinct and made room for them, and I fear it's often the same way with companies that get too big (and that the transition is never pretty, even when needed).
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  87. Cash assistance is often put on the same card, but a different account, as SNAP benefits. You absolutely cannot withdraw cash from a SNAP account. You can't even buy toilet paper with it where I live. Also, cash assistance is extremely temporary and only given in rather extreme cases, so you shouldn't even be getting on people for that.
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  88. Their stuff's shit that falls appart way too quick for the price anyway.
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  89. +the op kingdom exactly! She's a progressive at heart, but she's in the process of being infected by the establishment machine. She'll never have the will she once did, but insulate her from the source of the problem and she isn't totally lost yet. It's what happens a lot to good people that actually get into the system. They start with principles and goals but eventually start sacrificing them one at a time to help to achieve the others. It looks good on paper, but eventually, you sell out all of them (including the last one just for empty "winning"). You see this incremental road to evil within in some pretty famous psychology studies. (See Stanford prison and Milgram shock experiments) She's about half-way through that process atm. People that can resist bending to that for decades are rare and almost always are forced out by the system for "not playing ball". She's had a good run, but her ability to serve the people is fading (which started somewhere in the 2010-2013 range)
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  90. Sad thing is, many if not most, would just agree with the bankers now.
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  91. Really nice to see some good news!
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  92. Not to mention with disapproval ratings significantly over 50% for both candidates, the self-fulfilling prophecy of thinking 3rd parties can't win is the only thing standing in their way at this point.
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  93. Garry Lafferty You think you're going to get justices that will uphold the constitution from an election-rigging war-criminal that wants to hand over our sovereignty to multinational corporations? It can't be lost to Hillary either, and voting for the lesser of 2 evils election after election is what got us in this mess in the first place.
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  94. "I'm, not questioning your honor. I'm denying its existence" -Tyrion Lannister & every real progressive
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  95. Yeah, that was an amazingly accurate way to put it.
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  96. or rigging their primary? or taking a condescending attitude to their own base? or opposing the will of both the majority of democrats AND the general population at the same time? or displaying a sense of feeling entitled to the office? or smearing your own base as racist misogynists? or overtly lying to the public on what positions you hold? ...cause the establishment dems would never do a single one of those things due to the risk of jeopardizing their chances against republicans /s
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  97. "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the government for a redress of grievances." How does "unlawful speech" sound? "Unlawful press"? "Unlawful religion"? "Unlawful petition"? All pretty totalitarian huh? The constitution puts peaceful assembly under the same protections. Using "unlawful assembly" as an excuse to arrest a member of the press documenting a peaceful assembly petitioning the government for a redress of grievances is beyond unconstitutional even if she we're assembling with said protest (which is highly debatable).
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  98. Anyone can indeed wear a Guy Fawkes mask, but is anyone really surprised that a "group" that borders on anarchism in ideology would be strongly opposed to strict border controls? Agree or not, this is well within their norms.
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  99. A functional system shouldn't filter psychopaths into positions of power at over 20x the concentration in the general public in the first place
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  100. *sighs* definition time again: The right vs left dichotomy came about from the conflict between royalists and those advocating representative government (respectively). More broadly speaking it has come to mean those supporting strong established power, and those supporting populist power. The extreme of right wing is fascism/dictatorship, and the extreme of left is anarchism. (Side note: "establishment leftist" is a contradiction of terms) Other definitions that have arisen since then are propaganda tools designed for obfuscation and should not be used. The very idea of anonymous is far left pretty much by definition. That said, the model is very vulnerable to infiltration and possible co-opting, but as I haven't been following them, I don't know any truth about that, but this isn't out of like with their previous actions which Space Kitty correctly describes as "borderline anarchic"
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  101. There's a lot of competition in the 21st century..but yeah, when you have to be put in the company of the likes of politicians in the US and Saudi Arabia for comparison, you've done fucked up.
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  102. mailill well, the better democratic governments (when not completely corrupt) do a half-decent job of limiting power. Problem is we don't apply those same principles to the private sector and then (in the US and probably other places) let the private sector buy out the government so it does their bidding. Publicly financed elections while placing at least some restrictions on management structures for companies that wish to be approved as corporations would at least put a dent in it. There are movements to democratize the workplace so this isn't without some precedent, and unions are to a degree a half-measure in that direction. Sure, there's no simple answer that will fix everything, but that doesn't mean there aren't things we can do. The problem is that we're not being serious about applying the answers we do have. Thing is, we need to embrace changing our systems and social norms to do that, and one of those changes is recognizing this anarcho-capitalist system we call "free markets" as the golden calf religion it is (if I may borrow a christian term for a moment) We're just too attached to the way things are to have them the way we want them, but that attachment is fading fast.
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  103. Can we take a moment to appreciate the irony of someone arguing against populism calling themself a democrat?
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  104. Brad Hollmann or arrested him for deliberate contempt of court and corruption that he JUST confessed to.
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  105. nohints that's been debunked. Seriously, with all the hit pieces made by faking or editing footage you should really be more suspicious by now.
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  106. Yay citations. Also, shipping people food without reguard to what's actually being eaten in what amounts (let's be real: if the FDA can't even put out a decent food pyramid, the menu is going to be determined by lobbying), or any dietary restrictions is going to lead to a LOT of food waste that comes right off of the tables of poor people. As someone with dietary restrictions, I won't be able to use probably half of what they send me, and working around with the other stuff will alwasy leave me short on some things with others piling up in my pantry faster than I can use them. Meanwhile, I expect a lot of the discount grocer chains I use to make my SNAP benefits stretch will have to cut back on their locations (which will raise the costs of what I can get access to and push entire communities into food desert status). This is a disastrous policy for those actually trying to use the program responsibly (and those that want to engage in self destructive behavior will find a way to anyway).
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  107. Sandy money is power. Politicians use books like this to skirt bribery laws by having PACs, think tanks, and corporations buy up large number of these books "to give as gifts". (Bonus points that when they do give them out, they're effectively really thick propaganda flyers) This isn't even unusual for politicians if they're sitting on their hands with nothing to do.
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  108. Royal We well, I'd say it's more backdoor collusion with advertisers and traditional media (not to mention conflicts of interest all around thanks to these thing being massive conglomerates with fingers in a great many pies), than the simple market forces you're alluding to, but since google seems happy to go allong with it, the result is basically the same
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  109. John Dally a municipal service would be required to serve your entire area, not just where it was most profitable.
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  110. Define "work with Democrats" please. I personally believe that attacking the establishment "Democrats" in a 2-pronged attack from within the party and without is the best way to box them into a no-win situation, but there's a big gap between always voting blue and thinking the establishment dems will come around and never voting for anyone on the dem ticket ever again, so idk what you even mean.
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  111. Or better yet the standdown order
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  112. In this case they were ordered to stand down. Even the cops that would have been there on the ground have complained that they weren't allowed to separate the protesters.
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  113. legionary illuminati the constitution is the highest law of the land and most cops don't seem to even know what it says, so they fail just as bad by that metric.
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  114. Justin Mooney actually, there's a means to effectively end the electoral college at the state level. A number of states have already signed an agreement that would make it so that their delegates would be required to vote for whoever won the national popular vote with the agreement to take effect as soon as enough states have signed on to make it to have the majority of electoral college votes. I'm highly sceptical of blockchain voting, as it still falls into e-voting, and therefor is almost certanly less secure than paper ballots if you want to preserve anonymity, but yes, election integrity is the most important issue in a democratic country, and we need to put it front and center.
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  115. Anil Singh to be fair, we should be doing that anyway.
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  116. There are moneyed interests on both sides of this issue because the repeal of NN allows ISPs like Comcast to extort money from companies that do business on the internet. Plenty of rich people could, and do, want internet to be cheaper for entirely selfish economic reasons. Why are you making this about which rich guy falls on which side of the issue rather than looking at what is good for the people and trying to paint it like NN is actually going to raise internet prices for the people with no evidence? Are your corporate masters at least paying you, or are you just a useful idiot?
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  117. Not this channel's audience. You're not watching MSNBC here.
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  118. The program will explicitly not include fresh foods. Also, shipping a specific set of food without reguards to what's being actually eaten leads to a lot of waste. That's not even taking into account those needing special diets (like anyone with any remotely common food allergy) who would be totally fucked by the government basically saying "Here, I've spent some of your food money on shit you can't eat. Thank me later.". As mentioned here, the idea that it's going to save money with a delivery system is dubious at best. Also, if you think this is going to be about selecting best nutrition vs cost you're incredibly naive. This is just going to turn into another thing to bribe politicians over. The FDA can't even put out a decent neutritional guideline or food pyramid, so don't expect anything but greased palms here. On top of that, it'll expand food deserts even further by cutting buisness to what discount grocers exist (Like Aldis). If people insist on being self destructive, you're not going to be able to stop them, and trying to do so at the cost of those that genuinely want and need help is a terrible policy.
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  119. reversecourse Hillary and Obama didn't lead me anywhere, thank you. I form my own opinions on issues out of election cycles and then assess which candidate available will do the best job and bringing us closer to that. Also, Hillary has never lead anyone to the left in her life. The closest she's come is pushing people left of her further left when they realized how corrupt she was. He goal is to drag progressives to the right.
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  120. Kiluad male circumcision is a barbaric practice that should be banned for minors, but it's nothing compared to female genetal mutilation. Male circumcision (which, while also being a form of genetal mutilation) almost never leaves the man unable to orgasm, but that's kinda the point for FGM, so even though it's a serious problem that I feel strongly about, please don't equate them beyond "religions need to keep their hands off of children's privates" because one is clearly worse. To your main point though, anything that divides is a tool for the powerful, as divide and conquer is the only way the few can win against the many. All forms of discrimination fall into that umbrella, and misandry is one, yes. (I try to avoid "feminism" as a term as it means so many different things to different people that it's become useless in conversation dispite a clear dictionary definition)
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  121. Conservatism is about preserving the status quo. Of course those with power will be inclined in that dirrection.
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  122. Bo Hica the USA was the most prosperous it ever was when it was the most socialist it ever was. Strongly mixed economies (such as Nordic "democratic-socialism") beat the pants off of both anarcho-capitialism (what we call "free markets) and "communist" command economies regurally. Face it: both extremes fail.
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  123. I still can't get past how people thought charity from churches was ever sufficient. Poverty isn't some modern problem that only exists in secular countries.
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  124. Matthew Smith it was a slow process, but it started happening way back when they had all those issues with their funding.
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  125. Or even more on point, thinking people that can manage to cross a desert can't deal with a wall?
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  126. You missed 6: they "adjust" the exit poll numbers to match the voting machines and the media then reports the "adjusted" exit polls as if they weren't fabricated numbers
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  127. "Go over all the micro-expessions? Aint no-one got time for that!"
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  128. Sure but substance over style any day of the week.
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  129. Therrydicule Are you kidding? Bernie's policy positions line up with what most of the public wants. If the media wasn't biased, he would have won in a landslide. There's loads of evidence showing them being massively biased for her and against Bernie in the primary.
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  130. with respect to change: Liberal-open to new ideas and ways of doing things Conservative-opposes change from the current norms Neo-Conservative-seeks to "return" to an idealized version of the past that never actually existed. Neo-Liberal-a neo-con using a paper-thin veneer of social liberalism to trick liberals into voting for them btw, students of history will notice that neo-conservatism (and by extension "neo-liberalism", if you can really call that a thing) is just facism-lite/proto-facism.
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  131. It is true. The "2-party" system has been the dems and gop playing good-cop/bad-cop on the country for decades on behalf of their "donors". Once you realize that a lot of large corporate "donors" give money to BOTH parties in the same election cycle, it starts to become pretty clear what's actually happening.
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  132. There's also a lot of specific things from this past primary/election cycle that prove it too.
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  133. "Should have done something to determine who was going to win" What, like make them vote on hackable electronic voting machines with no paper to verify the result? Yah, that'd be a great way to undermine democratic elections while still tricking them into thinking they were fair.
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  134. Nuke Busters Ron Paul is honest, and having him in congress is good, but "the real deal" he isn't. Economics doesn't work the way he thinks and his policies in that area would be disastrous to implement. The GOP keeps him around to have a good face to put on the economic anarchism they call "free market capitalism" when they're backed into a corner. That all said, he makes a good face for it because he's honest and nearly always right (or at least decent) about social and foreign policy, so it's not all bad, and we're going to need all the help we can get on those fronts in the next few years.
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  135. Nuke Busters Most money in existence is, by far, actually created by the banks and the money supply does need to be able to change to deal with changes in the economy (I don't agree that the banks should do that, and the federal government borrowing use of it's own currency from private entities it created is absurd, but that's another discussion). The ugly truth of anarchy (economic or otherwise) is that it leads to continually escalating concentration of and abuses of private power without fail. The only way around that is to make an entity powerful enough to stop that, or at least put a check on it, and make it beholden to the people. We call this democratic government. Strip away the power of that entity, and you'll end up in the same kind of position beholden to a powerful entity, only without democracy involved this time. Capitalism is all about accumulating wealth and if you want it to work for the people by creating wealth rather than just extracting it from those people, you need a government strong enough to enforce rules in the marketplace to make that a reality. Or as FDR put it "The first truth is that the liberty of a democracy is not safe if the people tolerate the growth of private power to a point where it becomes stronger than their democratic state itself. That, in its essence, is Fascism—ownership of Government by an individual, by a group, or by any other controlling private power." Is it often inefficient and problematic? Yes, but "free market capitalism" is worse by a longshot, and Ron, for everything he gets right, misses this fundamental truth (as well as other issues with capitalism that need action to avert the worst consequences of, such as desperation and poverty not making good voters)
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  136. The fact that our torture manual was originally just a Chinese manual for how to get false confessions for political use should tell everyone everything we need to know about "enhanced interrogation".
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  137. Mr Wizard I'm open to the idea, but unconvinced that term limits are the answer. I'd much rather have career politics with strict financial restrictions (only public funding for elections and not allowed to work for any company that was ever effected by anything they voted on or a hard income cap after leaving office, etc) than term limits. I'm not saying term limits are all bad, but I don't think they would put a dent in the current problems.
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  138. Mr Wizard oh, no disagreement on Israel. That's why I didn't mention it. I just think trying to speed up the revolving door between politician, lobbiest, and cushy corporate "retirement job" won't change how much they sell out. They usually have sold out before they get to congress, and I've seen plenty local politicians who sell out with their first term. In fact, those are the most dangerous, as they go in with the intent to sell out, and then are utterly brazen about it because they don't even plan on reelection. They just want to make their doners as happy as possible in one term and get paid. Term limits don't lessen corruption. Term limits lessen entrenchment of ideology, but with a tradeoff. The shorter your term limits are, the less of a voting record the public has to judge a politician on. You also are forced to cycle out politicians the public really likes. (Remember that we instituted them after FDR, our most popular and populist president ever, and that it would mean no Bernie Sanders-like personalities in the mix). It also causes problems if you want to greatly limit employment after office to prevent cushy jobs as a reward for corruption (not insurmountable problems, admittedly, but problems) I'm inclined to agree with term limits for presidents, due to the concern over a ruler-like figure and the concern over a tendency towards defacto dictatorship. Congress, however, is a bit of a mixed bag that I'm inclined to do all other needed reforms first, and then see how things operate before instituting them. As to pitchforks, it's not time for that, as those need to happen when all other options are exhausted (both for ethical and practical reasons). That said, we are quickly running out of bloodless moves to make, and that worries me.
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  139. Why do a live debate with someone who's only skills are in solipsism?
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  140. KermitNinja9er not 100%. The CIA could have destroyed them and then given the other terrorists some US made ones. Depends on how much they wanted to cover their tracks.
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  141. David Rizzo that's why religions have to start the indoctrination young
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  142. Ranked choice voting is one of the most important issues in this country, up there with money in politics. We must fight for it.
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  143. They killed competition through collusion to create regional monopolies and bribing local governments to raise the already high barriers to entry. They destroyed intenet provacy by bribing congress. And now they're STILL coming after net neutrality dispite loosing the fight repeatedly due to insanely unanimous public outcry. They simply cannot be trusted to exist any longer.  "The liberty of a democracy is not safe if the people tolerate the growth of private power to a point where it comes stronger than their democratic state itself. That, in its essence, is fascism - ownership of government by an individual, by a group" -FDR
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  144. Peter Speight honest question: What "very good points"? About halfway through the video I got so pissed I had to stop watching because Jimmy was playing softball with this guy that only kept bouncing between correct but incredibly weak points, and infuriatingly wrong. I might have missed them if they were in the 2nd half, or missed them due to being so pissed at the guy I was cussing at the screen, but I didn't notice any.
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  145. It's not addiction to loosing, it that they're paid to loose. 9:43 The job they're bribed to do is to preserve the system. As long as they defeat progressives in the primaries and don't upset the status quo, they still get paid, even if they loose to Republicans. Winning the general election is simply not their highest priority. It's more like their 5th, because the GOP isn't their real opponent. We all are.
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  146. TheEnvisager they may try, but unlike Pai, they probably can't survive a 98.5% disapproval rating.
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  147.  @Hyown-b1z  that's a problem with wages, not tax structure.
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  148. I've watched all CPG Grey's videos and still think ranked choice is the best system but it needs to be combined with other elements. There are significant problems with proportional representation too. Further, the systems can be combined, rather than being mutually exclusive, so there's no reason to object to it unless you WANT a spoiler effect to preserve established power.
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  149. meeg_2005 yeah, it's all gonna depend on how 2018 goes and what position Bernie is in come 2020. Taking things on a case-by-case basis and remain flexible as part of a 2 pronged attack is the best strategy atm. Even if you're trying to ultimately go 3rd party, trying to reform the democratic party and forcing them to overplay their hand and alienate even more voters is probably a good strategy.
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  150. sakud1 as nice as that thought is, had he not run in the democratic primary in 2016, he would have just been another Ralph Nader and gone nowhere on the national stage. I disagree with him holding to his promise of not running independent in the general, as I think the BS pulled against him made that promise void in my eyes, but I understand the arguments against it. 2020's a tricky call tbh, as much as I want him to run independent and win, he needs to play things right, and gauge his health, and there's no right call for it...merely calculated risks. Every step on the way to that is going to influence the decision, and I doubt Bernie will even make up his mind until after the 2018 races.
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  151. Xyz Same wordy, but accurate. I hope people read it.
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  152. Why do victims of domestic abuse stay with their abusers? Same answer
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  153. As long as you maintain a 2-party system, you're fucked. It always leads to the majority not being represented. ...also, left vs right is about populism vs establishment power. "Establishment Left" is an oxymoron. To top it off, policy needs to change because times change. Trying to keep things the same only leads to decay. Growth or decay are the only real states of being, and right now we do need "profound or extensive shifts in policy" to correct the slow decay that's eating this country away.
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  154. Don't forget: owned by comcast
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  155. Moh Moony it'll only stop when either we get the oligarchs out of power or when it ceases to make them money.
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  156. Do they resist change reflexively? Do they prop up established power at the expense of the general public? Guess what, they ARE right-wing conservatives. Part of being a liberal is being open to change and new ideas, and right vs left is at its core about establishment vs populism. Anyone that doesn't meet those basic traits isn't a leftist or a liberal _by definition_. That's not even a "no true Scottsman". It's just being objective about the real definitions of the words.
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  157. Herbert Camacho want to know the truth about 9-11 by seeing the real evidence? https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLthPsWmE3cefpc2sBzI9gamfS9eJRdgEK
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  158. Astoris "militia men were trying to keep the peace"? We're in agreement about the police not doing their job, and I've opposed Antifa before, but go listen to Cornell West talk about who saved the lives of him and fellow non-violent religious leaders and tell me again who was doing the job of the police.
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  159.  @cesspool1676  yeah, how's that been working in practice?
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  160. Doesn't really matter. Leg wounds are very often fatal anyway as most of the cross section is going through/by major arteries or the bone (which will shatter and pierce the arteries if shot). The notion of leg wounds being less fatal is basically a Hollywood invention.
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  161. Voting anonymity is a pretty huge factor in election integrity as it prevents people being threatened/bribed into voting a certain way, so no, it shouldn't be verifiable to a specific voter's hand. I 2nd people watching Tom Scott's video.
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  162. Ryan Carroll building support for 3rd party candidates in an election can produce multiple effects, even if the probability of winning that election is 0. They can move the country towards a political upset and replacement of a major party in a following election (which has happened in our country's past and can happen again). It can help build support for 3rd party candidates in smaller elections. It can force more discussion of their political positions. It can force a realignment of the major parties to recapture the votes. It can help build support for election reform. Meeting a certian vote threshold can cause the party to get some funding and/or get included in some debates. It can send a message that some issues are non-negotiable to you (I, for example, refuse to vote for election-rigging war criminals or those who want to be such). At a certain point of degradation of the political process, using these minor perks to do everything you can to fight against the system you're in is more important than trying to buy into the good-cop, bad-cop game being played on you because even if you get the lesser evil this time, you know you'll just get a worse choice of evils next time. At that point, the corrupt system itself is the greater evil, and a vote for either candidate is a vote in support of it working against your efforts elsewhere. Imagine going into a shady used car lot and telling the salesman "Give me your best deal, but I'm not leaving this lot without a car."...we all know you're not going to get a good deal with that because any negotiation you don't at least appear to be willing to stand up from the table from and say "no deal" is one you should expect to be taken advantage of in. There's also a whole different, but not mutually exclusive, line of reasoning that says that in a constitutional democratic country, the integrity of the elections and constitution are more important than any other issue, so no candidate that works against those things can be rationally considered. You can also make an argument that supporting someone to represent you that has utter contempt for you and those like you is irrational at face value, and that human societies only function when a demand for fair treatment is held to at a cost that, on an individual level, may seem irrational. This demand for fairness is hardwired into primates through evolution because, even if it comes at a short term cost, it is a vital trait for survival when cooperating with other members of a species smart enough to manipulate. There are several entirely rational reasons to vote for a 3rd party, dispite knowing you'll loose an election, and there are several other less rational (but arguably still valid ones). Sometimes, even without knowing why, our instinctive emotional reactions to social situations have very good reasons behind them ingrained into us through our evolutionary history.
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  163. Griff - you must not have looked that hard then. Here's JP getting totally debunked on misrepresenting the trans bill that made him famous: https://youtu.be/xb3oh3dhnoM Then we can go into Jordan Peterson - A Critique by Rationality Rules: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLkcIPV7s4KSBe8iCczxI0GwLhyOa1O2TN which (dispite being overly generous) shows how JP's "reasoning" is just a pile of logical fallacies and IMO he's just working backwards from a predetermined conclusion, making him just a well-spoken solopsist. We can go on further from there about all the stuff he doesn't understand (including things he talks about frequently like marxism and postmodernism), but that's plenty to start with.
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  164. 9:43 The real election to them is defeating progressives in the primary. As long as they don't rock the boat after thay, they still get paid
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  165. lifeislessthan3 simple: stop subsidising corn, and if other food prices rise too much, put the money into SNAP to make it sure that people can still afford food. Then, food prices reflect the costs of production, we get less corn syrup in everything, and people still get to eat. Freedom, safety net, and a less government interference than we currently have now. Everyone should be happy about that.
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  166. Just like Republicans, if you want to know what establishment dems are doing, look at what they're accusing other of.
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  167. Xander Chicago also is right next to places with REALLY lax gun laws, so people just leave the city, buy them, and return. It's not a good comparison to nationwide laws (or even statewide ones for larger states)
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  168. @Amog don't bother with AntBoy. He's just a troll out to strawman leftists.
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  169. What positive achievements? The best he's done is take credit for Obama's limited successes, and clean up his own messes sometimes.
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  170. Bill Roberts exactly my point. Blindly following what authority figure says and believing them to always be right and good is juvenile. It's not something we're supposed to see outside of young children looking at their parents, but it's completely pervasive in our society.
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  171. Yeah, they're not so good anymore. The slow slide started after the defunding issues back in the day, and it didn't happen all at once, but it sure happened...unfortunately many people don't re-evaluate their news sources so they'll stick with whatever they used to like no matter how bad it gets and not even notice.
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  172. don417 their voting record says otherwise. They keep voting for war criminals and just this last election the guy that ran on a promise to "take out their families". By definition, that means it's bearable to them. Until the public at large decides that being a war criminal (actual or wannabe) is a disqualifing trait no matter what the rest of the election looks like, it remains true. No amount of claiming to hate it means anything as long as they leave those sentiments outside the ballot box. Dan may or not be a moron (I don't know him), but the op got it right.
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  173. E Debs it'd be so easy to at least add logical fallacies to the English section of the SAT as a component of reading compression, but no politician wants to make their voters resistant to propaganda techniques, and no buisness does either as that would make advertising less effective.
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  174. The Rational National and The Humanist Report both did. I expect Jimmy Dore and Secular Talk will do so as well soon
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  175. There are plenty. Every donation to an establishment politician is one.
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  176. i4nix13 look up the articles of confederation. We tried having taxes be optional, and guess what? No one pays taxes and the whole country falls appart. If you pick up a history book, you'll find that every position put forward by the right has been tried and failed before.
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  177. Moh Moony if I was president, as soon as I could I'd put the names of all top intelligence officers on a deadmans switch with orders to take each of them out if I died in any way mysteriously. The amount of power they have is insane.
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  178. Jay G willful ignorance and dismissal of all evidence of things that challenge your worldview (such as the success of Nordic countries) to continue putting everything into black and white categories and you go calling others morons? Really?
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  179. Nun Ya fuck off Nazi
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  180. The biggest example of "the wealthy oppressing the poor" WAS slavery, or do they not count?
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  181. Just was listening to the audio book earlier today. I'd also like to recommend this 20 min video for perspective on Venezuela, specifically: https://youtu.be/le86H7Xfjrc
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  182. It's a pretty big achievement to have them totally flatfooted and without anything to say. They are professional spin artists afterall. Gotta give the man credit for not one of them having a single word to say for so long.
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  183. Wow my ears are ringing from all those anti-semetic dogwhistles.
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  184. big 1234 agreed. If things become violent, it needs to be the oligarchs who strike first. There will be plenty of military individuals who will stand with the people if the rulers strike first. If push comes to shove and peaceful revolution fails, the one to strike first looses.
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  185. harry balls no, there WERE issues of ISPs throttling and blocking content for their own ends. That's why we put rules in place against it.
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  186. It doesn't matter where or when you live, nor how many "rights" you have spelled out for you. Cowards will never be free.
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  187. +RuleofFive that's why I always note it with something like "/sarcasm" or "/scsm" No matter how absurd the statement, there's someone in the youtube comments that believes it.
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  188. +Jason Gablaski well, you can't call it a democratic republic anymore when public opinion has 0 statistical effect on policy
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  189. Mr. Raleigh D. I can see both your posts if that's what you're asking.
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  190. +cptmiller132 Nearest "creek" to my house is about 60-100ft wide and goes right into the Ohio river. There's no official distinction and if the person to name a waterway calls it a creek, then a creek it is. I think that's a bit absurd, myself, but that's how it is.
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  191. Debating who the "lesser evil" is misses the point entirely and falls right into their hands.
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  192. You do realize that most rich people are rich because obtaining money is a priority to them, right? Once someone is "rich", they're actually far past the point where more money stopped making them happier, but they continue acquiring it.
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  194. Um, if the heating problem is that bad when idling, how do they drive? and don't give me that bs about the electronics causing all that heat. If a computer remotely came close to putting off the kind of heat as a car engine while driving, it would be a puddle of plastic with some smoking silicone and metal in no time.
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  195. Guessing with 20 parties, you don't have "first past the post" elections.
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  196. "A people that elect corrupt politicians, imposters, thieves and traitors are not victims... but accomplices" Great one Should add war criminals to the list though.
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  197. +myheartspits Yes, romantic attraction and sexual attraction aren't the same thing despite usually aligning. An obvious example would be asexuals who still desire romantic relationships with a preferred gender.
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  198. Therrydicule In 2013, he wasn't running for or holding any office I could vote for, so you're point is irrelevant. The media's job in an election is to take a critical and objective look at all candidates regardless of how well they are known. If the media had done their job correctly the whole general public would have known that Bernie's policy positions align more with theirs than any other candidate (or probably anyone in congress). Sure, the public should have done more research on their own, but that doesn't disprove media bias. Actually, it's only because of media bias that they need to seek out alternative information sources in the first place.
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  199. Even of that's true, you're going to need to force them to those extremes to such an extent that they can't hide what they're doing from hardly anyone. before you can "physically throw them out".
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  200. Miss Kekistan The dictionary definition of liberal, depending on context, is pro-change, pro-freedom, and/or generous. Left vs right started as commoners vs aristocracy, so left would be correctly defigned as populist, democratic, and anti-establishment. Those aren't at all contradictory. Are you using a different definition of "left"?
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  201. Dara Macr Sasmaz Yup, I completely agree on all points. I was just using slightly different wording. Political terms, especially, must have solid definitions or else they're just meaningless buzzwords consisting of just different emotional connotations to different groups (which only leads to meaningless polarization). I believe that reminding people that these words to have real meaning no matter how politicians want to twist them to be very useful.
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  202. Doubtful. Our society does all it can to break people like this as early as it can or, failing that, push them into dead end life positions where the power the can ever wield is greatly limited. Unless WE change things drastically ASAP, the best we can hope for is that he'll go into teaching or counseling. (Nothing against those of course, but compared to something like president, the scale of help they can provide is rather small)
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  203. A vote for a warcriminal is a vote against international law. A vote for someone guilty of election fraud is a vote against our own form of government. What does that leave you voting for?
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  204. The problem with that mindset is that our political spectrum is so far right of the electorate that we need to drag it back toward center before "moderate" really means anything again. Obama spent his presidency trying to meet the gop extremists half way and look what we got for that. Also, if you try to build a populist movement that isn't inclusive of all peoples, then there's a crippling contradiction in what you're trying to build.
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  205. As an independent too, what I saw from this last election cycle was many republican voters willing to switch parties to vote for Bernie who's very progressive. That's telling of what they're actually looking for: strength and integrity (and lack of corruption while being pro-worker, which everyone that isn't irredeemably partisan wants). In short, the right wants strength and the left wants compassion. These 2 things aren't exclusive. If you have good ideals, you win liberals, and if you stick to them no matter what, you win conservatives too. If you poll the issues, the country is pretty solidly progressive, even with hardly any good messaging for those issues most of the time. The right just will never follow anyone that's dishonest or weak in fighting for those values. That means no corporate shills, no weaklings that will betray their values when it's convenient (like trying to silence dissenting views), no "whining", and no lying to blow something out of proportion to win a fleeting political victory. The real long-term solution is, of course, ranked choice voting nationwide, but in terms of party we need, it's not about a less progressive populism, but a populism that sticks as strong as possible to its progressive convictions and is unapologetic about it, even when it's not to their advantage.
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  206. +ThoseAmericanGirls Just trash bin them. Wouldn't be the first time we left political parties behind, and it's overdue.
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  207. Sadly, you're probably right
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  208. Go on, beg, please. It means I'll get to do the same thing you've been doing to us for years: ignore you.
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  209. +Clint Holmes exactly! Both mainstream candidates have >50% disapproval, so the willingness to buy into the 2-party mindset is the only reason they're relevant.
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  210. +Frisbieinstein Fucked up but true...also why I'm not a registered democrat anymore, even though I live in a closed primary state. The DNC proved they don't want to let people like me have a voice in their party and will rig elections to ensure that, so there's no point in being part of that BS.
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  211. Facebook, from its very beginnings, has never been a force for good. A quick look through their history is enough to prove that. These days, they use their algorithms to shape the discussions that happen there for their benefit and do this kind of thing when that is insufficient. This should surprise no-one. Get off facebook.
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  212. +Malek Ubuntu A manchild as obviously insecure as Trump sits to pee? That's funny, actually.
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  213. See the 2016 democratic primary for all you need to know on that.
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  214. Yup, the only real argument for electronic voting is that it's cheaper. All the other difficulties in voting can be solved with more polling places and them being open longer.
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  215. No, but other members will die and Hillary isn't going to give us anything we're going to like anyway. Come on, she's an election-rigging war criminal that wants to sell out our sovereignty to multinational corporations (among many many other problems). If you think you're getting judges that will uphold the constitution out of her, then you're fooling yourself.
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  216. "She's either completely lost her mind, or she's, on purpose, trying to start a war with Russia" If she's trying to start a war with Russia, she's completely out of her mind! ...just sayin'
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  217. That...may well be the creepiest thumbnail I've ever seen! ...and I stumble into some pretty weird corners of youtube sometimes.... If I may be a bit crude for a bit and continue the metaphor... "just hold still" is understating it. It's more like "don't worry, I'm clean, I'll pull out, and you don't need foreplay" (Meanwhile Hillary's saying "I don't see any hole in the condom, calm down and trust me")
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  218. All those things are problems, but the way they're being used can be overwhelmed by numbers. We need to get high turnout and then immediately turn to fixing the SYSTEM before there's another election. Also, add to that list needing ranked-choice voting.
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  219. Sad truth is that most people use the complicated tenets of religion to distract themselves from one simple truth. The root of all true morality is compassion. You don't even need faith for that, and dogma usually gets in the way.
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  220. Both candidates have >50% disapproval. Fear is the only reason they're not both loosing to a 3rd party candidate already.
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  221. Obama goes after whistleblowers harder than any other president and wants to talk to at us about being serious about facts? Really, now?
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  222. Mr Wizard thank you for the civil debate as well. As I said, it's still an issue I'm not 100% decided on myself, because there are tradeoffs in both dirrections. As much as things like getting money out of politics are obvious, it's also nice to sit down and discuss finer points of government reform that don't always have clear-cut answers.
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  223. DM R no, Fox doesn't just misrepresent but lies all the time. The rest of the MSM has just sunk down to their level (admittedly not that far from where they were).
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  224. G Worm what? Fox viewers have frequently tested as being less informed than those who don't follow the news at all. They're called "Faux News" for a reason.
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  225. AZOffRoadster I have the choice of Verison or Comcast charging me >100/month after fees
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  226. "the loyal and honorable deep state" that really says it all doesn't it?
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  227. Note: see Debt: the First 5000 years for more of what I'm talking about
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  228. Dusty utterly eviscerates JP's talking points about women in the first few minutes of this video: https://youtu.be/_kktI8-lZw8
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  229.  The Irish Italian  most of the biomedical research in the US is done with public funding. Your argument is invalid
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  230. I didn't find it funny either, but it was all accurate and on point, so that's mostly just personal taste in humor.
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  231. Here's a breakdown about the truth of the trans bill he git famous over: https://youtu.be/xb3oh3dhnoM
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  232. As long as they keep progressives from winning the general, they'll still get paid.
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  233. dipojones more importantly, how much does the military spend on ads on cable news, and what do you think they're really buying with that?
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  234. Mhi kl our society is run by psychpaths. That produces a wide range of toxic behavior. Psychologists don't call it ANTIsocial personally disorder because it's good for social groups.
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  235. The 2nd means nothing if you don't have the 1st so you know the right place to point them.
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  236. I blame the people telling the cops in that instance, more than the cops on the ground. The ones that shot the boy were not told that the gun was suspected to be a toy, and the ones at this were TOLD to stand down and complained about it publically.
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  237. Why do domestic abuse victims stay with their abusers?
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  238. Nah, I never wondered if, only when. It's Jimmy we're talking about.
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  239. An oligarch, obviously
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  240. Robert Campbell it's more like a flock of lambs voting on which of 2 wolves they want to eat them
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  241. "the loyal and honorable deep state" that really says it all doesn't it?
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  242. If you start with your conclusion and reason backwards, the only use being smarter has is in tricking people into believing your BS.
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  243.  @steveschweichler9047  it is impressive to make a comment that long where every single piece of it is a different piece of BS. Congrats on the written gish gallop there. You even completely inverted the normal anti-immagrant argument related to government services to make it fit. Perhaps if you didn't treat economics as a religion with markets as your god you might not embarrass yourself so bad.
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  244. Ikrani um, no, since the training is provided by the department, that's not an excuse. We just don't choose to properly train them before we send them out with a gun. It's not like we're telling them to go get trained on their own and that is limiting the number of applicants.
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  245. Ikrani I was not referring to gun licenses, but the difference between specifically police officers given the authority to use force on behalf of the state, and some unarmed pencil-pusher/mall "cop"/investigator to emphasize the importance of the judgement and skill set you're talking about Apologies if that was unclear.
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  246. Burg Skeletal when the only tool you have is a gas chamber...?
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  247. Liberty stop it with the white genocide nonsense https://youtu.be/VUbxVfSqtt8
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  249. Demonitization doesn't have to be complete. Companies can still choose to run ads on demonitised videos, but since ad revenue is based on an auction and so few do, it means you still get ads, but the creators get almost nothing for them. See CPG Grey's video(s) on how ads work on YouTube if that didn't make sense.
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  250. Ernest Rimbeck if they cared about the damage they do (either morally or just having to pay for all the costs they externalize) they wouldn't be in the oil business.
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  251. Maurice OConnor if you don't see Nazis, it's probably because they're right next to or behind you. They love standing close to "centrists" and "conservatives" for cover
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  252. Will it be the final blow, or spraying gas on the embers of the revolution. That is still for us to decide.
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  253. Not all republics are democratic. Republic just means that you have rule by representatives, not how those representatives are chosen. You can have an autocratic republic just as easily as you can have a democratic republic. If I say "I want to restore democracy in the US" that can simply mean that I want to restore that ELEMENT of our government (not make the US a direct democracy) There's a similar distinction between dirrect and representative democracies (which are basically the same thing as a democratic republic, even if I cringe at making a new term for a identical thing for political expedience). If you're going to be pendantic, at least be correct.
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  254. They ignored Bernie early on too, but now he's too big and well known to get away with that without completely exposing their hackary. It's really that simple and using the same psychological trick of saying something people agree with before moving on to a dishonest claim.
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  255. Not even white collar work. Hell, if he'd even just done his homework he wouldn't even be in that party.
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  256. Anti Imperalist or municipalities being able to opt into state and/or national systems. There are several ways to address that problem so I'm not too concerned, tbh.
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  257. Considering they were giving Faux News special treatment while they were complaining about "fake news" dispite Faux News viewers being repeatedly proven to be less informed than those who watch no news at all (making them objectively fake news, misleading more than they inform correctly), well....
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  258. Real truth of 9-11 https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLthPsWmE3cefpc2sBzI9gamfS9eJRdgEK Building 7: https://youtu.be/7PpsCCTMP8w
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  259. Well, sometimes they do...wait, do accidents count?
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  260. What the fuck does changing the location have to do with the standdown order the police received? This sounds like the governor deflecting responsibility.
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  261. 9:35 people of Delaware. Take note of how much less it took for Tom Carper to sell you out than the rest, and remember that anytime you see his name.
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  262. Please watch CPG Grey on the electoral college here: The Electoral College: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL9936C719FF689E7D If you're still in favor of it after having the practical flaws of it broken down, I'm happy to debate the ethics.
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  263. Justin Mooney please watch this https://youtu.be/ubIeQ-uO_b0 and then go to nationalpopularvote.com That answers your question better than I could, especially at this time of night, but tl;dr is article 2 allows the states to choose their delegates in any way they choose, so no, it wouldn't violate the constitution.
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  264. northofyou33 it's more like domestic abuse victims that haven't left the house and are still insisting their abusers love them. The DNC sure fits the same behavior and speech patterns as an abusive partner.
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  265. It is the republican MO More proof that the corporate democrats are actually republicans.
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  266.  @cesspool1676  are you saying that the "Democrats" are more deregulation than Republicans or that it's "Democrats" trying to restrict abortion/marriage rights? Please tell everyone which way you are full of shit.
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  267. AlphaLemming lmao
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  268. Anyone else find that the few breaks they need to change their feminine products being that much of hindrance really telling that NONE of their workers are getting frequent enough breaks? Just saying, breaks aren't really a bad thing when you actually look at the numbers even from a purely profit standpoint, so this kind of stuff is really telling of how management sees ALL their workers and how they treat them in all things.
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  269. Proportional systems are deeply flawed as they allow the party officials to decide who gets into power. Still better than what we have but I'll take a ranked choice system over the DNC deciding which dems get seats.
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  270. Graknorke and AST get it
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  271. It wasn't a fucking instruction manual! Sad thing is, you all don't need me to tell you what "it" is anymore.
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  272. Gabe Steinberg um, BS. Florida in 2000, Interstate Cross Check in 2016, possibly Ohio in 2004, just to name a few and that's not counting things like Gerrymandering and other milder voter-suppression plans that they admit to. It's about the goals of the parties. The GOP wants to win, so isn't going to undermine their chances of winning the general by not electing the candidate that can prove they can get the most votes, but will cheat in the general. The DNC's goal is to keep real progressives from having a voice, and they'll be perfectly happy to rig their primaries if they think it's needed, but they're unlikely to try and rig the general as complaints about that would get the finger pointed back at them in a very public way and they'd no longer be able to dismiss the people accusing them as mere "conspiracy theorists".
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  273. Happy Merchant oh please, look at voting records. Both do.
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  274.  @my3dviews  fuck the "those who can't afford it" BS. The residents didn't cause this problem so it's not their responsibility to pay for whatever solution is needed.
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  275. Finding a way to monitize [anti]social justice warriors. Also butchering dictionaries
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  276. MsLuath meat is a LOT more expensive than grains. I don't eat much meat at all and usually get it really cheap, and still a pretty sizeable portion of my food budget is meat. Also, if you look closely, you'll notice different grain foods are in different categories, further skewing the numbers. (Note: rice flour, bread, and pasta are not all in the same category) It's not the wisest distribution, but that goes for most Americans, and with many people on SNAP being in food deserts, their options aren't always great either, so that changes the averages too.
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  277. Truth
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  278. Scott Pomeroy name us one person to ever be elected in the US that advocated for the destruction of all private industry and property through force with the end goal being total anarchism after a revolution at gunpoint. Name us just _one_. If you can't, take some time to learn what these words actually mean. Bernie, a self-described democratic socialist, is about dead center on the economic spectrum, so you're looking for someone about twice as far left as he is from the Republicans, and far more militant.
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  279. Scott Pomeroy really, you cite a video who's title claims that a hardcore capitalist like Obama is a Marxist? Kinda proving my point. That video is pure propaganda designed to trick people that have never read Marx. I've read Marx I've disagreed with Marx And I can tell you there is not a single country in Europe or seating politician in the US that is Marxist. Sorry to tell you, but you've been played for a fool.
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  280. So all that for a theoretical ad-hominem? Pathetic
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  282. People are usually conservative due to a lack of imagination. This shows itself in not being able to see other people's points of view, or ways in which the world could be better. Most of what imagination that exists in that school of thought goes into being terrified of the worst case scenario for the future and creating an idealized fantasy of the 1920s & 1950s (though technically speaking that last part is the MUCH more toxic neo-conservatism, not true conservativism)
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  283. Spoiler warning: the DNC thinks everyone that isn't rich is stupid
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  284.  @graememudie7921  trolls don't care about facts.
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  285. Sorry, but all this is based off of a fundamental misunderstanding of what money is. Value is created by demand. Real money has its demand created by taxes and represents the debt a society owes to those that serve in the public sector (originally soldiers, but expanded since then). Bitcoin, like any other bubble, derives it's value from demand created by people not understanding the bigger economic picture, and represents either the greed or gullibility of whatever poor fool ends up holding it when it does crash. If this is not self-evident to you please follow the following steps: 1-look up Debt: the First 5000 Years 2-realise Adam Smith didn't have a clue what he was talking about 3-blame your economics teacher (s) for teaching you myths 4-sell all your Bitcoins for real money
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  286. What could be more important to spend the money on?
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  288. No, that many psychopaths in one place is not natural.
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  289. If we actually wanted to curb illegal immigration, what we would to is increase oversight and fines for companies who employ undocumented workers to cut off the problem at the root cause. (Bonus: the fines could pay for the oversight: so it would be budget neutral) We'd also end the drug war and reverse our policy of exporting it to central and South America. Instead, when we have a negative illegal immigration rate, we crack down on the immigrants themselves, which not only makes them more fearful (and therefore willing to put up with worse treatment and pay from their employers), but has been shown to make them stay longer each time they get in to reduce the risks of getting caught, actually increasing the number in the country at any given time and making them seek out more long-term employment to fill that time (instead of just coming for itinerant farm work and leaving after harvest) Why do you think that is?
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  290. The simplest way to defeat terrorism: don't give in to fear. Good on you for keeping your head.
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  291. Lorena Bernal an economy that uses the stock market for retirement savings is fundamentally unstable as we've seen. Not only does it put retirees at risk, but forcing them back into the workforce hurts the poor and those just entering the workforce. Clinging to that model for paying for retirement is just setting ourselves up for problems in the future
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  292.  Jason Reyes  I've seen the same. There was a bit of a delay in the rollout to make it less obvious, but it happened, and I noticed.
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  293.  @roy8200  fuck Verizon. They sent Ajit Pai to repeal NN in the first place!
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  294. Patsy Stone I'd give you a more dignified response if you deserved one, so instead I'll just say this: Fuck off sexist
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  295. How about "comcast news"?
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  296. Broken clock and all that, sure, but holy shit. I figgured they were explicitly forbidden from saying "military industrial complex" and here she's saying they control our government!
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  297. Jonathan Milks Peterson being intentionally misleading or intellectually lazy? That never happens /s
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  298. Guillermo Rivas they're not even progressive on social issues. They're just flexible on them and use that to make their voters exhaust themselves trying to make them not take bigoted positions and then make what should have been the default position a badge of pride and tell the voters "what more do you want?" when they ask for anything else.
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  299. Here's a video from secular talk on the reality of Trump's economy https://youtu.be/iQCrcl9wX4w
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  300. John David does it function like infrastructure? Yes? Then the government should have a hand in at least a public option. It's just like any other utility at this point, so the current oligopoly situation is absurd and untenable.
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  301. He didn't come out of nowhere. He was a congressman with a totally centrist voting record. He obviously wasn't going to make massive progressive change. I voted for him in '08 going "eh, he's going to be a lame centrist, but at least it looks like he will at least respect the constitution, and after Bush we really need that (and Hillary and McCain are obviously non-options)"....unfortunately, he couldn't even measure up to my exceedingly low expectations of just not violating the constitution, so he didn't get my vote in '12.
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  302. It is mild clickbait...I'm not angry, but I am disappointed. and yes, I do follow politics. I just follow too many programs to catch all of the content from every one, so even I wasn't aware of the details behind the senate race, as I've been paying attention to different races. Can we all calm down and stop flinging insults at people that are presumably on the same side please?
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  303. ...it failed, but in 2017 it became something greater: our last, best hope for victory over the corporate ISPs
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  304. "The" implies they have just one. Militaries like redundancy.
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  305. Truth
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  306. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l6UZUhRdD6U Net Neutrality in the US: 2017 Update (Vihart) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oInAlTKlw64&t=311s Ben Shapiro debunked by a network engineer on net neutrality. (Scott Hunt) https://gizmodo.com/senate-reconfirms-fcc-chairman-ajit-pai-for-five-more-y-1819084578 How about you start here? And yes, some companies did violate Net Neutrality rules, but removing those rules will only encourage the practices that destroy competition. Contrary to what you may have been told, some regulations are in place to ensure growth by preserving healthy competition. Case in point: anti-trust laws.
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