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@jordan2170 I didn't intend for it to come across that way, but you're right.
In this video, Dore concedes that he is NOT as knowledgeable as Seder. (Well, no kidding.) In other videos, Seder falls all over himself looking for ways to disrespect Dore as a person. The fact is, Dore has been uncanny at times in showing exactly the right political instincts. And at other times not. He was traumatized by having to declare bankruptcy when he developed a very rare bone disorder, and he still feels ashamed about it, because he wasn't raised to view bankruptcy as just some paperwork to fill out. It still shows. Of course it clouds his views. And sometimes it gives him insights that people who will always have enough money to pay a doctor will never grasp, because they don't know what it feels like not to have means for real necessities. They have no idea. So, I value his perspective, even though it will not always be right.
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There are a number of reasons to try this strategy to gain M4A. First, a loss, now, is NOT predictable. What usually happens may not happen this time, because we are not living in normal times. Second, politicians having to go on the record against M4A during a pandemic, in a country shedding jobs like crazy, where health insurance is tied to a job, is a tough calculation for them now. That's what they need to do -- represent us. And if they don't represent us, no more lurking in the shadows. We want the truth in full view. Third, no one ever got anywhere by playing nice -- well, except for career advancement. But real progress? Never.
Other than that, Krystal Ball and Briahna Joy Gray gave more technical reasons why to demand a vote now, and Cornel West is for it on principle. Krystal is an accountant and knows about forensic accounting in addition to journalism, BJG is Harvard Law and Bernie's former press secretary, and Dr. West is plain brilliant. So they are worth the time to read or watch.
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@thehumanity0 Okay, no pandemic, no recession . . . "Unicorns and fairy dust." Got it.
My plan, personally, is to leave the US again. So, this matters much less to me than you think. Vastly less. You're the one who will need to be doing some serious thinking, if the option of leaving is closed to you.
It's not a Big Deal to pressure a politician like Nancy Pelosi to serve the people in a crisis. She just gave a chairmanship to Kathleen Rice, who not only withheld her vote for Speaker last time, but started out in politics as a REPUBLICAN. This is Realpolitik. I'm not a big AOC fan, but this gets under my skin. (*This* was divisive. Pelosi, however, is apparently not worried about being divisive.)
Also, don't swear at me. Or on second thought, do. It has the opposite effect you intended, for anyone with a brain.
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Richard Garcia I totally disagree about Gray, but I'm not naive about what you mean. Dore does not have power, and women like Gray and Halper and Susan Sarandon are in it based on the principle of the matter. But to take the most extreme example of what you mean, Harvey Weinstein, who was powerful, had so many of the women he oppressed (and worse) not only afraid to speak out (having seen what happened to those who dared to speak out), but also praising him to the skies. These types of dynamics are tragic. They lead to women resenting all men and being mistrustful of all men, which is crazy unfair. Well, you are overgeneralizing, too. Dore is so obviously working class that he turns most bourgeois people off. How can you miss that? That's what's happening with Dore! He has no real power. People support him in spite of his rants, because he is often right.
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@SpellboundTutor There is proof Fauci lied about masks and herd immunity and several other things. The truth about the lab leak theory is that if this virus was enhanced in some way, chances are that fact makes for a stronger case for vaccination, not weaker. Sounds like "natural" immunity is not so likely, and predictability of the course of the illness, or future mutations, is less likely. Those are reasons TO vaccinate.
But that's just it, lying makes people more scared. It makes people believe something really big is happening, like when parents will lie to children to hide the truth. I had a minor operation two weeks ago. When they told me that major emergency surgery could be needed, and a blood transfusion could as well, THAT is when I calmed down. The worst case scenario, presented to me honestly, is what made me exhale. That's how I knew I was being told the truth.
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@thehumanity0 Let's get specific. Why should someone who has never been outside the country, who has never had a passport, who never listens to the BBC, much less news in another language, who of course is monolingual, who has never been to college, and who hasn't gone to a library since high school, believe there is a pandemic? Do you see lots of evidence all around that the politicians YOU want to protect from "infighting" are taking it seriously, and appreciate the urgency?
Who and what do you think needs to be protected now? Nancy Pelosi, with her infamous trip to Chinatown and the hairdresser, and who thought eating luxury ice cream and chocolate was a strategy to keep one's chin up during shutdowns? Really? Then she needs to pay you.
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@thehumanity0 Don't swear at me. It's not my fault that you can't follow a carefully laid out argument. Actually, you did follow. Swearing is what you do when you know you've been exposed. The fact of the matter is, while there may be plenty of reasons to be tolerant of Sanders, there are no such reasons to refrain from challenging Pelosi. I'm not going to repeat my argument to someone who swears. You're tedious. Justin Jackson said it well. So did Katie Halper, Max Blumenthal, Briahna, Dr. West. Where are the progressives in the Biden cabinet? Who did Pelosi appoint to a committee chair instead of AOC? A woman who DID withhold her vote in 2018, and who started out her political career as a Republican. That was low, BTW.
You DON'T talk as if there is a pandemic and a looming recession, or worse. You failed to acknowledge it as a factor in making M4A urgent, and voting against M4A risky. So I can no longer despise the people who really wonder whether the pandemic is a "hoax." They are simple people, and don't understand how the jaded operate. All they know is that their jobs are disappearing. But I'm supposed to care about the political class because . . . Help me with this, LOL.
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@benisjamin6583 YouTube followers? And it's spelled "ad hominen" -- but pointing out hypocrisy is not ad hominem. His recent health issues are just another example of being incapable of walking the walk, and of being a human being who displays himself as being wise but is no wiser than anyone else. My personal life remains personal, and I'm not going to risk compromising my privacy to prove something to some stranger, but yes, I have done far better than Peterson -- with refugee parents. Of course I have three degrees. How about you?
If he's a hero for you, ask yourself why you need him to be your hero. Not only have I listened to him, but I've read all the major works he recommends on his website. A combination of Nietzsche and Jung gets recycled pretty regularly, and is known to appeal to the youth, especially young men. (Did you know that? Well.) Peterson needed the money, for real (his family has long-standing health issues, sheer bad luck, not self-generated), and he found a way to monetize it again. I'm surprised. I also read a few chapters of his book, the ones that looked most promising, and felt sorry for him. Worse than I thought, much worse. At least he speaks to people most of the insipid chattering classes ignore. I'm not sure that most of what he tells them is so good, however. Very few gurus ever have anything good to say; pick your flavor of self-serving, because that is what they are.
"YouTube followers!!!" The new desert of the unreal.
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@tessa63627 I didn't see this until now. First, there is no data whatsoever on the AGE at which surgery was performed on the people in this meta analysis. Second, here is a line from the study: "Overall, follow-up time from surgery to the time of regret assessment ranged from 0.8 to 9 years." Say WHAT? How can you even mix such disparate time frames, much less generalize over a reproductive lifespan? Even nine years is not a long time, and does not respond to my point. Third, a 1% regret rate is equal to 1000 per 100,000 cases. Were this a side effect of a life-altering, irreversible drug or other treatment, it would require warnings. Fourth, I saw no mention of puberty blockers, perhaps because young teens were not in the samples? You go and read it and show me if that treatment is included. No one is trying to curtail adults in pursuing their happiness.
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@davidaponte3600 I was speaking of a case where the offensive individual apologized in writing and promised to never repeat the conduct, and the apology was by all appearances accepted. That's why I mentioned a contract.
When this has happened, what do you think about repose for the perpetrator?
The b u ll sh-t we see here on this particular video is bad for victims and bad for women. Moreover, if your daughter is saying that purely verbal harassment should be treated the same as homicide, rape, and similar offenses, then I do not agree. But as far as anyone having the right to speak of their own experience and feelings, at any time, that's obvious. Ana can try to use this incident to silence people, and the women on MR are free to join in. THEY are arguing for censorship. I'm not. I agree with everything you said at the end, and I think it follows perfectly well even if a person has no patience for Jimmy's style and politics. You just DO NOT use sexual harassment allegations in this way.
I'm writing in part just in case our buddy, The Feminist, who swore at me and called me a liar, considers coming back, LOL.
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@omnibus5359 Well, then you didn't see the full JRE program I'm referring to, which Rogan made after he recovered. Not Instagram.
Obviously Dr. Gupta was not his source concerning MSM production techniques. He is a doctor, he was there to discuss COVID. On that note, the current NIH website states, "There is insufficient evidence for the COVID-19 Treatment Guidelines Panel (the Panel) to recommend either for or against the use of ivermectin for the treatment of COVID-19." (emphasis added) It recommends further trials, and discusses the rationale for studying it. The Indian government distributed it, en mass, and against WHO advice, as prophylaxis. I've never seen definitive information on the outcome, assuming we can avoid a post hoc fallacy.
Are you sure you're up to date? :)
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@omnibus5359 Sloganeering. I practically know the essay by heart. I taught it frequently. Who's pretending some sort of "culture clash?" Posturing has a long and (ig)noble cultural tradition here. And who brought up conspiracy? Well, other than you!
If you mean story, say story. If you mean claim, say claim. If you mean subject, say subject. If a word with an Anglo-Saxon root has greater specificity, then ditch the more general and fuzzy but pretentious Latin root.
Bad enough you have to say "narrative." Now I'm treated to "SPIN a narrative!"
And "the narrative being changed is that . . . " Wow, I've heard of passive voice/agentless sentences, but this one is in a class by itself. I'll have to write this down, it rocks.
I don't know what those insider acronyms mean. (Orwell mentions that, too.) I gave you the information. Look it up yourself, or don't. I've also demonstrated that your comments on ivermectin are somewhat misleading, in light of what NIH says -- not that any celebrity testimonial should ever be given weight, either.
What a zoo. LOL . . .
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Richard Garcia You know what? At least I can appreciate that you are sincere. You had an actual event in life, something real, and maybe more than one, that made you feel as you do. I can respect that. But don't imagine that it's everyone and everywhere, or that certain "signs" are universal indicators of that kind of mind in a woman. It just isn't true.Thanks for participating again.
Most people don't have a good love life these days. I do not know what happened. I know social media and the electronic landscape in general are not helping.
I'm reading a book on PTSD by Francine Shapiro and I expected it to deal with combat veterans, or major accidents and health challenges, or serious crimes -- that sort of thing. Well, so far it talks about romance a lot, and how trauma can derail it. More interesting, actually. Also, and she's no wimp, she says that many so-called "ordinary" traumatic events in life can give rise to PTSD, and that such issues are simple and can be treated in a couple of sessions. She herself had cancer a long time ago, while in graduate school, apparently cured. I don't know if anything else traumatic happened to her. They told her at the time that her prognosis was "we don't know" and "good luck." (!!) I have to laugh, gallows humor.
EDIT: Just found out she died last year at 71, and that during her childhood her sister died.
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@TheMarsCydonia LIAR. You are conflating "conversion therapy" involving the attempt to force a person to change their sexual orientation, with therapy aimed at encouraging children and adolescents to accept the body into which they were born, whether that be male, female, or, in rare instances, intersex. If a person hates their body, supporting them in loving their body is not conversion therapy. They aren't trying to convert them from something they naturally are (such as gay, lesbian, bisexual), but looking for ways to help them accept their biological body. When that proves impossible, then you consider more invasive therapies.
I'm so glad trans is mostly an affluent white problem. One less thing foisted on people of color, whew!
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@SpellboundTutor This is not a scientific question in which the empirical evidence changed in this short period of time. It is a public policy question. The political winds shifted.
Exactly: The fact that people who are injured are on their own, they can go shove it, is precisely one source of mistrust. The pattern is the continual offloading of risk on to those least equipped to bear it. Health, education, unemployment, disability, retirement, everything. This is why no European left supports mandates -- and this, in spite of their excellent comprehensive health and disability benefits. At least they can deal with it, rather than face isolation and scorn.
Sad: it was Dore who pointed out you're being trained to hate that one guy in Wisconsin. And so you do, complete with swearing. Bravo. You proved his point. That is sad.
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@ArchlordZer0 I urge you to watch the videos I posted. It is obvious you are not familiar with all sides of the argument, which is The New Big Thing -- the Foxification of the country, where everyone only listens to people they agree with.
I will grant you, it is very annoying to listen to an opposing argument poorly drawn. That is why I gave you a link to a guy who has lived in the rustbelt AND did his doctorate at Cambridge. And Aaron Mate, who of course urged voting for Biden.
Or, don't listen. Suit yourself. But then I really don't care to waste my time. I have a hundred pages to read today, etc., . . . I also have somewhere to go. (I can emigrate.) I know it's rude and brusque to say so, and to put it so baldly, but I am hoping to see signs of people waking up soon. It's late in the day . . .
You think it over. Sleep on it and come back.
P. S. Also, the Supreme Court doesn't work that way. For example, we have Medicare now. The Court would not oppose expanding it. There is no basis to object to that. Abortion, marriage equity, a higher minimum wage than the national standard will exist in most states. The Court can't do anything about it, even in a worst-case scenario. The erosion of the Fourth Amendment is the most frightening, and that has been going on for 50 years. Even a few extreme right wingers have been afraid of that -- for good reason. The worst part is, society itself has participated in accepting limits to our Fourth Amendment rights. The "reasonableness" standard is changing, and we have been complicit. Big mistake.
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@ArchlordZer0 Bad faith time waster.
Seder places far too much emphasis on the Supreme Court to the detriment of what matters, namely ELECTING people to the executive and legislative branches using the appeal that was proven to work. To wit: in EVERY congressional race where a Democrat embraced the progressive agenda the people want, the Democrat won, and wherever the Democrat opposed it, they lost.
It is NOT true that the Court can overturn an expanded Medicare. People 65 and over have Medicare now. It is not true that the Court can affect the minimum wage. We have (an inadequate) minimum wage now. This is settled law, not subject to whim. The legislative branch decides these things. ELECTING progressive people changes these things. Electing DNC neoliberals hands over more power to Wall Street -- and FYI, business litigation is MOST of what is on courts' dockets today, Supreme and otherwise.
It isn't obvious to you that the DNC just failed spectacularly, that it should have been a landslide against not only the WORST president ever, but a man who is clearly unhinged? I mean, his tweets alone should be enough to sweep his entire party out of office. So. What happened? You still want a SOUNDBITE? I wish it were so easy. (Did Seder convince you it is? I doubt that. Even I think better of him.)
You should care about informing yourself. If you don't, I don't. Your joint, soon not mine.
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@Dead_Guy_Bob No, I think what we mean is that medical intervention in a minor child to create irreversible transitioning should be extremely rare if not prohibited, that only age-appropriate sex education should take place in school (so that before about age 12, you make sure that every child feels welcome, no one is bullied, and you say that every family is a nice family, whether it has one mom and one dad, just one mom, just one dad, two moms, two dads, a mom and a trans dad, etc., but you do not go beyond that before, say, the 6th grade, and you save some stuff for senior high school), and that pronoun changes should be shared with parents whenever a child's actual safety is not at risk.
You know. That sort of thing. Get it?
(No? Yes?)
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The 1980s sowed the seeds of EVERY disaster. Osama bin Laden, financial deregulation, full immunity from liability for vaccine injuries, soaring trade and budget deficits, a decline in union membership and industrial sector jobs, and Iran-Contra. That decade even gave Epstein his start.
Oops, I forgot the end of affordable education. In 1980, no one needed to go to a private university, and people easily paid in-state tuition with minimum wage jobs. Today, we are in the age of private K - 12, with tuition the size of a professional income.
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@shawnwilliam4653 What?
Honey, I think you're all crazy. Like, literally all.
Keeping with specifics, what do you imagine this video "exposes?" It makes it appear as though freedom of speech were a right wing concern!! (Church Committee, anyone? Ever look at their report?)
Let me ask you -- as all the commons become privatized, and all the space where First Amendment rights could in theory prevail becomes privatized, what do we have? Plus a state wholly devoted to protecting private interests, to the point where that's what its military is concerned with, as its first mission.
I don't care how you dress it up, or what weird story you tell yourself. That is a form of fascism.
Moreover, no one in the world went bonkers over COVID the way the Five Eyes did, with the sole exception of a single country: China. (Where a good part of our labor force resides, as it turns out.)
Say. What do you think Taibbi did? What did they tell you he did?
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@shawnwilliam4653 Oh I see, you've appointed yourself hall monitor. Channeling Ash Sarkar's brilliant retort to Piers Morgan: "I'm a communist, you idiot. No, I'm literally a communist."
I don't even plan to stay in this country. It's too far right, too imperialistic, too racist, and too violent -- and too given to mass psychosis, from Salem to the present. I don't want to contribute to its crimes. To a great extent, I've managed not to, actually, and partly by the "luck" of being unlucky.
You know, one mistake your groupuscule has made during Trump was to lie about him -- as if there were not enough odious things that were true to point out calmly. That alone could take months, years. But no. You lied about a liar. Well that's not exactly upholding principles of truth.
At least Taibbi wrote Insane Clown President. What did you write? Oh yes, that's right. A comment to me.
BTW, my family lives in one of those places your country bombed with DU, and that you can't find on the map. I haven't made a wh*t* friend in this century. (Whew!!!)
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@benisjamin6583 On the contrary, I specialized in Socrates and Plato for one of my degrees. Socrates DID walk the walk -- I refer you to some of Foucault's last lectures on precisely that subject, a long meditation on truthtellers (MIT published them). Socrates was always coherent: he said exactly what he thought, and he did what he said. (BTW, in case you believed Peterson about Foucault -- OOPS.)
A person who knows about benzodiazepines and nevertheless turns to them in a moment of despair is NOT coherent. I thought you knew enough about him -- that he does have health issues, as does his daughter, and now his wife, that were not self-generated in the least, in contrast to the ones in which he certainly played a role, and which you assumed I alluded to when you said these clips predate his drug problem. He also has a strange fixation on Russia (he even named his daughter after Gorbachev, look it up), and as a non-Westerner, I always note that. I mean, I like that civilization a lot, it's not foreign to me, but . . . it's something to watch out for in Westerners, generally. Not that it proves anything; it may mean nothing -- just that when you see it in people who don't have those roots, be a little bit on guard. Let's put it that way.
This is a waste of MY time. Have it your way. The Secret made more money, didn't it? As did reality shows. As did casinos, plastic surgeons, all sorts of things. If YOU ever bothered with Socrates, you would recognize that fallacy as one of the key fallacies he pointed out. Popularity hardly proves anything, especially during certain points in history. Like right about now.
I was about to say more, but it's really futile. You could have learned something from me . . . you could have at least gotten a few recommendations for really good books. Well, I have a minute, so: The Apology -- read it carefully, then read it again, then again. See what Socrates says about people who make money to impart pseudo-wisdom. See what he says about the wisdom of the common people, who are usually looked down upon. (A veritable commie before the fact! And so much for hierarchies and lobsters!)
Gabor Mate for real wisdom. Any self-help book that deals with doing something else, rather than dwelling on the self, is vastly better than any straight-up "self-help." So, books on writing, or on music, like The Perfect Wrong Note, or books on acting (Audition; How to Stop Acting), or on investing (AlphaBrain) will always do more for you. If you go for darker entertainment, and wry, edgy advice with literary flair, by all means Robert Greene. And he's probably not someone I agree with politically, or socially, and his advice shouldn't be taken too seriously -- as he himself tells you. But he's really funny, and great at what he does. You can find some good books to read when reading Greene -- unlike Peterson, who is a dead end.
I've just given you so much, and for free! Out of sheer generosity. Imagine, this is not monetized! I can guess your reaction. But one day, when you might be tempted to, say, pop a pill, get drunk, or some such, you just might come back here and start reading, and doing, instead. That would be great. I'm always for that.
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@benisjamin6583 Have it your way.
If a person is doing well, they say what they say because they believe it.
If a person is not doing well, they say what they say for the money.
(EDIT: Doing well is an inner state, obviously. It is not defined by bank balances, retweets, etc., etc.)
I've caught him in a lot of contradictions, and he spouts tons of nonsense, much of it obviously bad faith and quite a lot of it harmful (such as, for example, his claim about the inevitability of hierarchies, his misuse of evolutionary biology, and his advocacy for LESS tax support for public universities, when he must know that that support has been systematically gutted, ruining the futures of millions, because someone, somewhere is a . . . Gender Studies major!). Still, there's something sad about him that makes him hard to dislike. I dislike most of what comes out of his mouth.
Just one question: why would you think Plato and Socrates are examples of why health is unrelated to the pursuit of philosophy? They both cultivated good health, and were in good health. I think they believed doing so was needed as a first step toward pursuing philosophy, or more precisely, that it was a part of philosophy itself. The notion of philosophy was much broader than just intellectual development. It was to be lived, in every sense.
I'm guessing you thought of them because Peterson uses them as examples, and falsifies Socrates. I seem to remember that, but I could be have him mixed up with someone similar. Falsified Socrates is a popular right-wing trope, right up there with "cultural Marxism," which is allegedly "post-truth." ("Post-truth!" Okay, that is a complete hoot. Tell that to anyone working in an Innocence Project.)
If it is Peterson who is telling you this stuff, then he just misled you again. OH WELL. Don't shoot the messenger.
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@galvanaut7119 That study, which is the best one so far, compared myocarditis in all vaccinated, in all unvaccinated, and in all COVID cases. Not in the demographic that accounts for the unusual concentration of myocarditis from vaccination, which also happens to include minors.
I concede that in the review of research I did yesterday, I have found no confirmation of my position OR of yours, and very little information on myocarditis deaths in either the vaccinated or the COVID sufferers, except that they have happened. The only evidence in favor of your general position in favor of vaccinating people who account for a tiny fraction of a percent (about 0.075%, see Statistica) of all COVID deaths is that vaccine-induced myocarditis is very likely to be significantly less serious than myocarditis in COVID sufferers, and likewise endocarditis. Again, no demographic information -- but that could be because it is true across demographic groups. But it does not support your claim concerning relative incidence in teenaged boys. Can you?
Do you know what the current FDA warning on the mRNA vaccines says? I haven't looked.
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@philesq9595 "Dore's fans are not ideological, educated, or interested in politics. They are hurting . . . and hurt people hurt people."
Well, thanks for providing actual progressives with an opportunity to practice on you! (Also, that little story about how "once you were a fan of sorts, but then you realized" is a well-known trope, used extensively in infomercials.) The problem with your story is that some of the very best educated and most astute political actors are in favor of ForceTheVote, in many cases, quite frankly, in spite of Dore's communicative style. The list is amazing: Cornel West, Briahna Joy Gray, Katie Halper, Krystal Ball, Kyle Kulinski, Dylan Ratigan, Ben Norton, Max Blumenthal, and, perhaps one of the finest human beings in all of journalism, Aaron Mate. I've course I've missed many. I know I have. But do you realize the intellectual firepower I've just listed? There is no plausible way to make them out to be pathetic.
There isn't all that much plausibility in your innuendo about Jimmy Dore, either, considering who he married. He won life's real prize, the big one. The one that matters. :)
My, my. How could you not see that? But Sam Seder thinks he lacks a swimming pool.
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@philesq9595 Um, how shall I put this gently? You are not talking to a monolingual, monocultural American. The way that you are contorting yourself in wild and incessant ad hominem and sheer psychobabble (an attempt, apparently, to . . . get under my skin, or something?) makes me embarrassed for you. You mean you really don't know? This is the best you can do?
Jimmy has all kinds of fans. The people I mentioned all watch him regularly, before inviting him on their shows, or coming on his show, of course. I mean, they are hardly stupid. The only kind of fan he usually seems to lack is . . . someone like you.
When it comes to comments, too, one never knows who is there simply to provoke. Ad hominem and swearing are a tipoff -- though these days, you can't tell just by that. Some are even false flags. I tend to think Sam Seder is too smart to approve your message. I don't understand why anyone would go to the lengths you do, for a politician. There is no one for whom I would write the bizarre, self-referential invective you just wrote.
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@Junebug89 You don't see how in the context of freedom of speech and expression, this could be turned against you? We now have proof that during the pandemic, people who spread propaganda and supported coercive tactics had a platform at Twitter, and those who presented actual facts were censored. Case in point: One person wrote a vague and impassioned claim that "children are dying of COVID!!" Look, a child can die of a common cold, so that is of course technically true. In response, someone posted ACTUAL CDC data, with a link, showing how unlikely it is for a child to die. (Some people pointed out that flu is more dangerous to children, which was not a great comparison, since flu is quite dangerous to children, and being just a little less so is no great shakes.) Guess who got censored and sanctioned?
I have no problem with inviting employees to have input on the rules that apply to all speech. They are the ones who have to enforce them, and they have the experience that comes with doing the actual work, so they should have more say than the managers as far as I'm concerned. That's not the same as giving them license to create prior restraints to speech based on the cause du jour that they just got all excited about with their friends -- or that the DNC or the FBI told them to censor.
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