Comments by "L.W. Paradis" (@l.w.paradis2108) on "Useful Idiots" channel.

  1. I've never asked this before, and normally it would not occur to me, but: Could you PLEASE make the entire Richard Wolff interview available for free on YouTube in about 4 to 8 weeks as a stand-alone? It's too important to have it stay behind a paywall in perpetuity.
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  2. THIS was the best report on Israeli voices for peace and justice I've seen so far.
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  3. Please do something nice for yourself this weekend. Now.
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  4. It makes sense that the security state runs the country. Surveillance, regime change, and covert operations are the best ways to serve the billionaires, their only constituents.
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  5. YES. Five bucks per show adds up. Don't forget Glenn, our god. Of course Briaha, our intellectual beauty. Chris Hedges, etc. A consortium is necessary.
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  6. Exactly
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  7. Outstanding segment, thank you.
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  8. And they don't see any reason to hide it.
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  9. ​@stuartwray6175 The struggle with autocorrect is never over. You cannot win every battle.
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  10. Did you ever think we would be witnessing full-blown war psychosis, and tons of people would be praising it as normal and innovative? And others would know no different?
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  11. How could Assange be a traitor? Extraterritoriality, obviously.
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  12. 💯
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  13. BTW, more fun facts: Mark Kelly was a Navy Captain and an astronaut who piloted the Shuttle. He also saw combat as a Navy pilot. Last I heard, the Navy trains people in how to shoot straight. Also, his parents were both police officers. Apart from being shameful, that ad says a lot about what media does to people's grasp of reality.
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  14. Reading a book on PTSD: During the WWII bombing of London, some children were sent to the countryside to save their lives. Those children were more traumatized by being apart from their parents than the ones who stayed in London and lived through all the bombings, with their parents. That's what we're doing at the border.
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  15. I felt that way, too, and within a few days felt as though I needed to hide.
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  16. 28:51 We always said that if this were ever to happen again, WE would stop it. Instead, we are arming it.
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  17. It worked for her. 💰
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  18. Those are usually coordinated campaigns. (Y Tu Mama Tambien had a swarm of religious fundamentalists denouncing it, if you can believe it. "N'importe quoi")
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  19. It's disgusting but it came as no surprise. Why does anyone defend Hiroshima and Nagasaki, still?
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  20. The "subtext": the power of the dollar grows out of the barrel of a gun. Realists always knew that. The purpose of degrading Russia is to degrade any threat to dollar dominance -- which grows out of the barrel of a gun.
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  21. Um, let's hope not.
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  22. There are many. We don't hear from them.
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  23. Robbing and starving Afghanistan: "Everything happens for a reason."
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  24. Wow. She must need a raise. Ackman is on the case.
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  25. For people who grew up in Jewish homes where ethics and justice were always a priority, facing this is not easy, either. People hesitate to say it, because, obviously, compared to what is happening in Palestine, . . . it cannot be compared.
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  26. Katie in her Russian hat for sure.
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  27. @theprogressivemichigander6588  Thank you for this perfect explanation. It's rent extraction, just as Adam Smith warned about and thought could be avoided, and Marx demonstrated was inevitable under the system. How are older people supposed to afford a car or a washing machine? You used to be able to buy one for retirement and never need another, not to mention the vast environmental degradation planned obsolescence is causing. All of this is spinning out of control.
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  28.  @MatthewLevine79  Yes, that's her.
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  29. @ChannelMath  This made me go back and watch it again, and I agree. 😢
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  30. Yes, one of my absolute favorites.
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  31. "Entitlement" was once a good word; the Supreme Court used it to mean something that you are entitled to, in contrast to any program that depends on someone's discretion. In the case of Social Security, no bureaucrat can say "no."
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  32. It's probably mostly Jewish people and Palestinian people, to be honest.
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  33. But they use more planned obsolescence now. BTW: In 2007, on July 4th, I wore all Made in America, including shoes and underwear. It was my tradition, and all the teens I knew thought it was cool. I can't anymore.
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  34. AIPAC, who are here, have more to say about what happens in Israel than do people like Mr. Cassif, who is there.
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  35. Matt, why are private prisons not illegal under the 13th Amendment?
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  36. Never be ashamed.
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  37. Given that f***ing collision insurance/shakedown is mandated by state law, well, everyone has to find a decent company. I don't know. This did not bother me as much as, say, . . . Oil, Pharma, big banks, private prisons, . . .
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  38. Me, too. Shocked me as well.
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  39. Oh My God . . .
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  40.  @davidschlessinger9945  There is no such thing as a progressive view on the lab leak hypothesis. It either happened or it didn't. Rittenhouse is much more complex than neoliberal media portrayed it. A generation after Columbine and Wisconsin's legislature was incapable of drafting a reasonable and constitutional gun law with respect to minors? This is astounding. I didn't know what is legal in this country. As for Rittenhouse's affiliations, the JDL 2020 annual report on domestic extremism said they found no evidence of extremist affiliation. His older sister supports BLM and went to a demonstration after George Floyd was murdered. The relatively unknown commentator Dore had on gave the best analysis of the Rittenhouse case. He made a distinction between taking the broader view and a narrow one, which is the one the court takes. Under a narrow view, the simple fact of being armed does not provoke any particular person, and in any case Rittenhouse fled. He was therefore entitled to claim self defense under Wisconsin law. Not only that, but the prosecutor tried to violate his Fifth Amendment rights. Why would progressives agree with prosecuting minors as adults? I opposed that from the start. We all know why it's done.
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  41. 💯 Wonderful show.
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  42. Katie also gave us "woke washing." Yes, brilliant.
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  43. 43:59 Aaron Mate joins the program.
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  44. ​@ahmedvawda1282 How do you know? If child of survivors Norman Finkelstein is not, and his parents were not, why do you think they all are? Not all Germans supported Hitler. That those who resisted were extremely rare, like SOPHIE SCHOLL, makes it all the more important to remember them. Doesn't it??
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  45. So the Steele Dossier was pure DARVO. A lesson to us all.
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  46. Chris Hedges was just on, for a long segment. 🤣
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  47. 💯
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  48. 20:06 I sympathize with the Israeli activists. This is hard. Gideon Levy has a deep perspective on all of this. People willing to face the facts will be the ones who bring solutions. This is tragic. Agree also about the international community. All true.
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  49.  @tonyclayton6975  😂😂😂
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  50. Lead causing retardation has a known mechanism. Look up the post hoc fallacy. If there were multiple proven cases, even a tiny number, of retardation after the vaccine, there would have to be a suspension of the vaccine and a study.
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  51.  @amoeboidtendencies5137  You don't have to read her face. She has brushed aside concerns, supported vaccine mandates, and ridiculed ivermectin, even calling it horse paste. (I don't "support" ivermectin, but that's what's so ridiculous. I don't ask for drugs, ever, except for vaccines. It is a simple fact that virologists support further study of ivermectin, as does the NIH. It is a human drug, not a horse drug.)
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  52. There is this thing some people like called books. Don't be against it until you check it out.
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  53. Obliviousness
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  54.  @MundaSquire  And that's being kind.
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  55.  @fast_harmonic_psychedelic  The MSM tells the rest what to think, I mean moo in unison.
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  56. If the vaccines work less well than had been hoped in preventing serious COVID, and don't work well at preventing transmission, that undermines the case for mandates.
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  57. Aaron is PERFECTION in his remarks. Hillary literally stated the election was stolen from her.
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  58. A program that ends in well under 60 minutes could help you train your attention span. Berletic also uses some general vocabulary and geographic and geopolitical terms you might not be familiar with, so it could enhance your skills there, too.
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  59. You are not alone.
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  60. Now let's be fair. It's the only way she can.
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  61. @akap_987  Anyway, more details are always welcome. It's rare for podcasts to build a case step by step; paper is still the place for that.
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  62. Consult Lev Golinkin's research on the issue of neo-Nazis and Nazi sympathizers in the Ukrainian armed forces, and the influence they wielded, well above their numbers. Golinkin was working on this before the invasion, and is profoundly anti-Putin in general, and against this war in particular. The issue was treated in MSM before it became one more forbidden narrative. If you haven't been interested in the past, I don't know why you imagine you have special insight now that the issue has been completely politicized. This is one journalist. Saying she doesn't know, based on her relatively limited experience and linguistic skills, is a sign of honesty. She did see efforts to hide signs of Nazi sympathies. That doesn't give solid numbers. Too bad so many journalists use such limited information to speculate.
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  63. My mask protects other people more than me. And a vaccinated person can contract COVID. So, people who have been vaccinated would wear a mask around people whose vaccination status is unknown, to protect them.
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  64. From Counterpunch, with hyperlinks in the original: "On the same day the CDC caved to political pressure (rejecting the advice of 100s of epidemiologists) and relaxed mask guidelines, seven fully-vaccinated members of the New York Yankees tested positive for COVID."
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  65. EEOC says employers can require vaccination of employees, absent an ADA-type accomodation. The vaccines are not yet fully FDA approved; one has been authorized for emergency use for only three months, and had to be briefly suspended during that time. I guess this is to keep us safe. /s I expect to be vaccinated by the end of the year. I'm opposed to this added power and violation of privacy by corporations anyway. . . . This is what happens when the boss controls your HEALTHCARE.
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  66. Re: Bernie "Cease fire" is a dirty word, apparently; the new "trigger word." How fast these things happen now!
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  67. And only the ruling class of those countries.
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  68. HA What do you think these schools are??
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  69. Agreed
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  70.  @potdragon8091  I wish people who immediately swear at others would have their dreck removed.
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  71. Yeah, I can. He pays a lot of attention to people who have lost out over the last several decades, and who no one pays attention to except to make fun of or denounce. He says some true things that everyone should acknowledge but very few people do. And he employs some well-tested techniques of demagoguery only at times -- often, but not too often. He creates scapegoats for the fragile who need some such thing to rid themselves of rage and move on. A 20-year-old kid who is quite average, has certainly done nothing wrong, who would have had a decent union trade 40 years ago, like his father did, and who is literally sleeping on a couch in his parents' basement, is very angry. He needs someone to acknowledge it, lift the blame from his shoulders, and then show him a way OUT. You can be sure he gets zero decent advice, lots of bad advice, and gets yelled at ALL the time. If he sold drugs and got away with it, he'd get more respect. Not good. Enter Jordan Peterson.
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  72. You're being kind. Someone else beat me to that I see. Maybe you're just naturally kind.
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  73. 17:28. It's a racist trope to claim a people's children are precociously dangerous.
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  74. Are you doing something nice for yourself? Just checking in. ❤
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  75.  @charliekowittmusic  Why did your derogatory post stay up, and my factually accurate one, citing an official government agency position (the same one JD quoted correctly), get removed?
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  76. De Santis translation: "He's not our narco-terrorist."
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  77. This interview is inundated by ads for violent first-person shooter video games. THIS represents America now. Nothing more to say.
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  78.  @urrywest  But have you ever seen her not look high?
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  79. Of course the Nazis followed a Jewish guy who had the temerity to intermarry with an Aryan. Anyone can see that.
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  80.  @weejockpoopongmcplop  True, but we got it.
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  81. Well, good thing all those prominent people reported on Jeffrey Epstein immediately, and saved those barely-pubescent girls. /s
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  82. ALL three are great. Please.
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  83. 👏👏👏
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  84. Agree with Katie. PBS producers wouldn't know this.
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  85. 9:23. So, . . . Putin is right. Hands down. Milošević too, in fact. SMH
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  86. Katie and Aaron are very funny, too.
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  87. This is how I feel when they throw shade on the Israeli peace and justice movement -- though it is small. The people exist.
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  88. ​ @מיכאלקליין-ש3ס Random? He's not a member of the Knesset? The people featured by Democracy Now and by Glenn Greenwald are all just "random" as well?
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  89. He is rare. What was done to him is lost on no one.
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  90. Sweet
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  91. I made a point to read Singal's entire article at The Atlantic. I was surprised at how excellent it was. It is absolutely crucial to get the gender dysphoria diagnosis and treatment right. When clinicians work hard to make that happen, it's transformative. No pun intended, the results are remarkable.
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  92. @akap_987  All true. And by the way, I agree the biggest protests will come from politicians with the most to hide.
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  93. "LARPing . . . .branding . . . " says everything about your mentality.
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  94.  @mr-peabody  Who said not to ask real questions? I provided the name of who may be the single most credible source in the US. "Is this a nothing burger?" is not a real question. It has no foundation.
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  95. Is that "a bug or a feature?"
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  96. This interview was tremendous. Best I've heard yet.
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  97. John Stewart: Carson said American cities were once the showcases of the world. What happened? Two people working for the minimum wage could get a decent apartment in any city and start out in life. What happened, John? Financialization happened. And, is it possible that cities have to be full of homeless to keep us free to be LGBTQ? I don't think most people think that's a ringing endorsement of freedom. People who feel safe from destitution are more tolerant.
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  98. That Republican was mostly right about Fauci, but sucks because he doesn't really mean what he said about our rights, or puppies.
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  99. The few potheads I know I avoid. Something's wrong with them. Granted, after 25+ years straight of this, basically every day. Yeesh.
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  100. 5:50 THANK YOU for going there, Katie. I didn't turn this on expecting to laugh so hard.
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  101. This is the true Bill Clinton. This is the essence of who he is.
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  102. Talk about cooking "in a nonjudgmental way?" No. Judgment is essential.
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  103. Thank you for telling us about this horrendous experience. Being a witness seems like nothing compared with being a survivor, but in no way is it easy. It is its own kind of pain.
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  104. What is your source for the claim that 96% of doctors have been vaccinated? Is that in the US? (Edited for typo)
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  105.  @UnderhillKoufax  "PLOS: The BCG World Atlas: A Database of Global BCG Vaccination Policies and Practices" has the information, plus references. There are studies underway (which I did not know about) investigating whether people who had a BCG vaccine against tuberculosis have any resistance to severe COVID. (It appears unlikely, though possible.)
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  106. This channel censors more than most. I wonder how that works.
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  107. Trust me, that occurred to everyone (who can still think).
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  108. That could be the case, of course, but think for a moment: does Australia speak Chinese?
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  109. We all live under the economic system under which we live. Yes, that is essentially tautological. In a different system, they might have much better jobs.
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  110. ​ @margaretames6522  Too late to push him out.
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  111. Megyn Kelly is SO jealous of any woman who gets more attention than she does. 😂😂😂 Never fails.
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  112.  @Silence_Duder_Gooder  He's a known troll. Possibly more than one person.
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  113.  @TheUAoB  Thank you.
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  114. Remember when all this stuff was supposed to be for ferreting out terrorist cells plotting another major attack?
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  115.  @modijack  It was not that long ago that tuition at the late, great state universities was so low that one summer of full-time employment was sufficient to cover a full year's worth of tuition, fees, and books. What do you think is going on?
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  116.  @modijack  If you think that explains all of it, then, well, you've fallen for sheer ideology. Students used to be able to PAY for state universities by WORKING. You think government-backed loans is the sole reason they can't now? Or did right wing culture warriors win the battle to defund the state universities, at the state level, and funnel the money into the carceral state? Are you also someone who wonders whether "Gender Studies" is the problem (less than 1% of all degrees conferred nationwide), when Business Administration has been the most common major by far, for at least 30 years? Look up Financial Engineering. Did you know that was a degree? Those are the people who will change your life, not for the better.
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  117.  @charliekowittmusic  Because Katie Halper has said explicitly that she supports vaccine mandates unreservedly. She is on record. That's why.
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  118. Thanks for that.
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  119. From another thread: they died, she saw, she came
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  120. After the Beslan school massacre, ABC News interviewed the terrorist mastermind who claimed responsibility. Russia protested, the US government said we have a First Amendment. Now tell me why RT is suppressed? We can hear from Nazis and from terrorists, apparently. I wish we did have a First Amendment. Let's go back to that.
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  121. 35:20 Tremendous Perfect clarity.
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  122. Yes, the Grayzone livestream, posted about 5 hours ago. . . . if I said this twice please excuse. Either my computer or the algorithm is not wanting it to appear right away.
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  123. Thank you for that. It is the best comment I have ever seen on YouTube. I mean it.
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  124.  @theoriginaltommysteward  Silver medal for you. :/
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  125. 25:40 AMEN (Exhale) I wish the US had politicians like this.
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  126. I'm starting to go there at this point. 😅
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  127. He's not ignorant at all.
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  128. Lucie Castets is a very good choice, too. "Moderate," relative to the NFP and to French society, and very poised and competent.
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  129. 35:50 Why Katie is much loved.
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  130. You must have an exit plan. I'm traveling to visit relatives in Europe this fall. I worry it is later than I think. It always has been.
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  131.  @i8am8kemraj84  Not being nice, but honest. Simple honesty --- unfortunately, as you said!
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  132. "What Orwell feared were those who would ban books. What Huxley feared was that there would be no reason to ban a book, for there would be no one who wanted to read one. Orwell feared those who would deprive us of information. Huxley feared those who would give us so much that we would be reduced to passivity and egoism. Orwell feared that the truth would be concealed from us. Huxley feared the truth would be drowned in a sea of irrelevance. Orwell feared we would become a captive culture. Huxley feared we would become a trivial culture, . . . " -- Neil Postman
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  133. ​ @gagibakija4825 Yes, this is what deserves applause! This OP.
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  134. Anyone who signs bombs has nothing to say about Trump's rudeness.
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  135. I saw Matt Kennard's Twitter feed. Now I understand the push to censor.
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  136. I honestly didn't think this was mocking. If it was, then I agree. His story of how that happened is not entirely clear and seems to contradict a lot of his own message. But when someone cannot live by their own credo and they admit it honestly and without shame, then yes, a real hug is in order.
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  137.  @mejdirr276  Nice points
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  138. There are more than we are allowed to hear from. Remember why The Hill fired Katie.
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  139.  @andrewptob  YES. Matt a Bond villain, Katie a Bond girl. She could do that with makeup and her hair.
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  140. Thank you guys!! Happy New Year.
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  141. Speaking of parents, these two have awesome, angel parents.
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  142. Finally someone brought up race. YES IT IS RELEVANT. Face it.
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  143.  @peterstafford4426  << ALWAYS block ("mute") this one. >>
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  144. The only personal advice I do trust, other than from a doctor, is from those who got the shot AND expressed reasonable reservations, like Chris Hedges.
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  145. Get your money back, damn.
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  146. The suicide/necrophilia/philanthropia organ donation retribution segment is starting to grow on me?
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  147. Nothing like an open border to Fight Terrorism. 😂😂😂😂
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  148. The look on Katie's face during the clip. 😅 Perfect.
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  149.  @rebekahmcAlister  Yes it was. Great post.
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  150. He is unwell. He occasionally says something right, and it's the sort of thing that matters and that everyone should get right. It's unconscionable not to. If you are looking for heart plus mind, you should read Gabor Mate, Aaron's father.
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  151. For civil policing? No, he's telling you the truth for a change. He's a war veteran, by the way.
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  152. Even odder, he has a major, lifelong Russia obsession which he passed down to his daughter. When Westerners are Eastern-curious . . . Very peculiar, never a good sign. But hugs? Definitely. He needs a long one daily.
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  153. ​@user-dq9yf9bq5f He wasn't kicked out, he was suspended, and he is unbowed.
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  154. It is traditional to name Native American children after a spirit animal, and traditional to have white fish during certain Jewish holidays and other observances.
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  155. Every single one of these Congress members who say they are not seeking to punish Rashida Tlaib for First Amendment protected speech is flat-out lying. Congress could have passed a resolution distancing themselves from Tlaib's statements and affirming their support for Israel, if they were so hot to. Instead, it voted to censure her, which is a finding of wrongdoing for having spoken and a formal reprimand for her words. This is a punishment, which they doled out to chill protected speech. They swore to protect and defend the Constitution, so I guess they betrayed their oath.
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  156. I thought gender reveal parties were for people who have come through a gender reassignment operation and fully recovered, and want to celebrate, declare their new name, and have a party for their friends. These parties are for a fetus ultrasound?? (No wonder?)
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  157. I think that's right. Moreover, any socialist state (including the Western social democracies) simply cannot keep up with the pace of the arms race set by the US. They do not and cannot achieve the capital formation needed, which then feeds the MIC, obviously. They can only prosecute defensive wars -- and even win against the US, but only in defense.
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  158.  @sotirmilivojevic6233  Americans have no sense. Just heard from a journalist active over the years in Venezuela, and even those people have sympathy for Americans, because they know Americans are deliberately misled and abused.
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  159. 1. Access to such sensitive information requires training, security clearance, and above all no conflict of interest or divided loyalities. (I don't know about you, but I don't think Palantir, for example, has the best interests of Americans at heart.) 2. Who do you think has the capacity to conduct this audit? Do you think an ordinary CPA is qualified? Do you have any idea what sorts of teams conduct forensic audits of the largest corporations? You think it's tech bro hacker "geniuses?"
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  160. @akap_987  All right. I appreciate that. But I did not hear drama and hyperbole. Musk's Palantir ties are enough to concern every person on earth, because that data is used to un-alive. Since at least 9/11, I've noticed that every warning we've had concerning threats to our privacy and freedom has turned out to be overly optimistic. Did you expect the last five years to be what they were? Did you expect 2008-2009, for that matter?
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  161. That's not cheating. Do you seriously not understand what a quorum is? Do you think Senators don't know? 😂
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  162. They mentioned the defunding of fire fighters in the first place.
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  163. ​ @PeteMD  Is it moral to be absent from work without excuse? Or vote by party line rather than by merit? That's moral? 😮
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  164. ​ @PeteMD That's your best shot? But someone else . . . 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
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  165. They should post the whole thing 4 to 6 weeks later, or possibly longer. I appreciate why it cannot be done regularly, but special interviews like Norman Finkelstein should be posted eventually. Norm had money troubles at one time, too. He refused to be bought.
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  166.  @TheBigGetEven  I AGREE 100% EXACTLY!
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  167.  @TheBigGetEven  Even very pro-vaccine doctors, like Dr. Eric Topol, agree that a "vaccine-centric" approach (his words) is insufficient.
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  168. Poor Aaron. He's a trooper.
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  169. Some of us actually read his article, in full. Singal does no such thing. You know you can count on practically everyone not to read. So Trumpian of you.
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  170. Did anyone expect BRICS to expand before the war in Ukraine was settled? I frankly did not. I am surprised a lot. Shows you what the world thinks of American leadership (hegemony).
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  171. What is your source?
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  172. Tremendous scoop, guys! Outstanding.
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  173.  @S.G.N.713  The daughter of one.
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  174. Lesser evil got us here, to where they had no compunction about nominating BIDEN. This is too serious for lesser evil.
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  175. Re: Dems "fumbling" It was ON PURPOSE
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  176. People take out loans to pay for state schools. You know, the schools you used to be able to work your way through, easily?
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  177. Except that Epstein SERVED empire.
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  178. After then Beslan school massacre, ABC News interviewed the terrorist mastermind who claimed responsibility. Russia protested, the US government said we have a First Amendment. I agree with that. Now tell me why RT is suppressed? We can hear from Nazis and from terrorists, apparently.
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  179. ​ @seanp8220 You beat me to it.
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  180. ​ @antonijobakija6553 It's of a stripe, isn't it? Love that racial supremacy, I mean white man's burden.
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  181. Vaccination has evidentiary support. Mandates do not.
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  182.  @UnderhillKoufax  There are no "mandatory" vaccines. There are public school districts that require them (in the US, not in the UK, Canada, the Scandinavian countries, or Japan -- but obviously, nearly all children in other countries get them without any mandate). The option of private school and home school exists. The 1986 law covers all childhood vaccines, and provides compensation for any significant adverse effects.
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  183.  @UnderhillKoufax  Didn't you know that more people vaccinate their kids in developed countries that do not force them to do so? This should not be shocking news. (Universal health care and comprehensive benefits for disability don't hurt, either.)
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  184.  @UnderhillKoufax  There is no "mandate" for vaccinating children in the countries I listed.
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  185. I'm curious, since you appear to be knowledgeable. Most of Europe, and Japan, has a tuberculosis vaccine at infancy. Why doesn't the US? Is there a reason?
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  186.  @UnderhillKoufax  Correct. They WANT the vaccine. Precisely my sole point.
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  187.  @UnderhillKoufax  Also Chris Hedges' point. He AND his family all got vaccinated.
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  188. I still have my old WHO card, when I needed a smallpox vaccine to travel to Italy and France with my parents. They did as well. We could have stayed home.
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  189.  @UnderhillKoufax  I checked. The US has no federal vaccine mandate, until now, sort-of. Vaccination requirements for school are a state matter. All but 48 allow "religious exemptions," thus granting greater autonomy to the religious than to agnostics, etc.
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  190.  @UnderhillKoufax  Not a good look.
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  191. That's funny. My grandparents lost everything they had in WWII. They don't think that stuff.
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  192. Which generation of Americans should be condemned? Can an Israeli fight for justice and full equal rights, or does he have to emigrate? What if he is the third generation born there? 75 years is a long time.
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  193. Aaron: "it's unbelievable . . . " Aaron, you are a fine person. You can't start with yourself. I'm from Chicago. I'm not even surprised. Without modern electronics, it would have been covered up.
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  194. Berletic is well-known to people who tune in to The Duran now and then, though they aren't a favorite. But like anything independent and relatively objective about the BRICS, worth watching sometimes.
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  195. 11:44 NO Aaron, do NOT be embarrassed. My gawd.
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  196. Aaron: "Who goes to orgies any more?" 🤣🤣🤣
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  197. My understanding is that LFI is willing to threaten exit, and make good on the threat.
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  198. 10:12. House Republicans are there to fundraise big time.
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  199.  @durango8882  LOL, excellent
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  200. Wrong Useful Idiots segment.
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  201. 7:07. Why is this constitutional? I mean, don't they have to hide this? I know they do it, but openly?
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  202. THIS! Ask for a consulting fee.
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  203. Most of the "dozen" purveyors of gross medical misinformation could have been prosecuted by the FTC for false advertising a long time ago. Instead, they propose censorship again.
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  204. Kudlow looks inebriated all the time now. Not meant to be funny, either. :/
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  205. Cars have been computerized for generations. Yeah, it sucks.
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  206.  @WhenWillTheInsanityEnd  The first modern one: the French.
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  207. I suggest you listen to or read some Steven F. Cohen. You might be very surprised. He was asked several years ago, at an event at the 92nd St. Y, whether Putin would invade Ukraine. Everyone expected him to say "no." He did not say no. A lot of people were at odds with Katrina after she and her late husband refused to join the Russia conspiracy theorists.
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  208. 🤣
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  209. Perfect guest. Very, very warmest thanks, I swear!
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  210. Except today we don't have an Arkhipov.
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  211. Is Zelensky actually Jewish? Serious question. Somehow I don't believe it.
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  212.  @markmarshall5234  What does cut and paste prove? A lot of people have Jews among their ancestors, especially in Russia and Ukraine. That doesn't mean they themselves are Jewish. Lenin's mother had some German Jewish ancestors on her father's side, and her maternal ancestry was Swedish. She was Russian Orthodox. This is from two centuries ago. If your maternal line is not Jewish and you do not convert to Judaism, you are not Jewish. Your father and your mother's father may be, but you are not, unless you convert. If your maternal line is Jewish and you convert away from Judaism, then you are not Jewish. There are a lot of ways not to be Jewish. Both of my parents had some Jewish ancestry on their fathers' sides, but it occurred to no one to consider them Jewish until Hitler showed up.
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  213.  @markmarshall5234  I only mean that the fact that it is repeated over and over does not persuade me that it's true. You must have seen the string of talking heads that said -- over and over -- that neo-Nazis could not be a major presence in Ukrainian militias because Zelensky is Jewish. It's ridiculous as a premise, but all right, I'll bite: show me he really is Jewish. The more it is repeated, the more skeptical I am. I'm not suggesting he's not. I'm saying I won't believe it absent more substantial evidence --- especially after the Canadian parliament fiasco. But that's just me, a born skeptic. 🤨
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  214. I love a nice, warm fall, pretty skies and leaves, migrating flocks, and no snow before the first day of winter. Plus an early spring.
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  215. Are you kidding? Berletic is a regular on The Duran.
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  216. 9:40 To think that freaks like these can prevent a pregnant 14 year old from having an abortion at 6 weeks.
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  217. 1:35. 😂😂😂😂
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  218. Zelensky sounds like a stand-up comic impersonating Zelensky.
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  219. For me it's the leaves.
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  220. ​ @TylerDurden1975-o1x OH BROTHER what a rewrite of history. Where did you get this utter nonsense?
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  221. Not alone, even today. The BRICS are expanding.
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  222.  @lynnebarnes3840  I honestly do not think that is the case any more. Dollar hegemony relies more and more on military might, not on the productivity of the real economy making settling accounts in dollars desirable. Even Adam Smith would condemn the power of the rentier class in power today as antithetical to real economic growth. I find it striking that the escalation of the war has not hurt Russia's standing outside the West. Really not at all. I am not Western, either, but I'm not so pleased by this. It's just not true that Putin has managed this correctly; the fact that the US and NATO are worse doesn't make him right. I hope the other BRICS members and their allies are approaching the US behind the scenes to implore them to end this proxy war. After all, China owns a good chunk of our debt. They don't want to pay for our Nazis.
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  223. He did not pull it off.
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  224. ​ @jessd4048  Exactly. Here: "Tucker, Tucker! You've told us yourself. It's the price of FREEDOM!" if you watch that Moscow subway segment Carlson produced, he seems to hope people have forgotten his past rhetoric. Taken at face, it does not lend itself to your view of Stewart's ridicule at all. It comes across exactly as Katie and Aaron heard it.
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  225.  @jessd4048  Unless Carlson has actually been changing some of his views lately. He sure is making it look like he is.
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  226.  @benjaminselassie  Okay. Please go away. There are times when the Miss Grundy/Nurse Ratchet routine is not desired. The current pandemic and policing crisis is one of them. You really think this person doesn't know that all things considered, what they did did not turn out to be terribly prudent? You really think the school's response was reasonable and proportionate? Whatever happened to detention -- with someone like you as the monitor? A couple of weekends like that and you can be sure a kid's behavior would be perfect from then on.
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  227.  @benjaminselassie  Um, where did I say it was NOT a problem? I suggested the punishment did not nearly fit the crime. If you can sound like Nurse Ratchet, I can say you sound like Nurse Ratchet.
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  228.  @benjaminselassie  I have written screenplays. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest was a novel before it was a movie. You never read it??
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  229.  @benjaminselassie  It was a book first. I read three languages. But I digress.
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  230.  @benjaminselassie  The book was better. Greater intensity.
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  231. Correct. Singal wrote an outstanding article. He interviewed some of the best doctors treating trans youth and showed how it is absolutely crucial to get the gender dysphoria diagnosis and treatment right. When clinicians work together and work hard to make that happen, the results are remarkable. The goal is not pills and surgery, the goal is a happy and fulfilled human being. Sometimes that requires surgical intervention and hormone support -- and sometimes not. Sometimes the surgery is like a miracle, the person emerging from it happy for the first time in their lives, and other times there is a need for more therapy. That's what I got from Singal's article. Does everyone have to be the same? I hate to disappoint you, but . . .
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  232.  @nohbuddy1  The article was not transphobic.
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  233.  @nohbuddy1  Does everyone have to be the same? You answer a real question with a bogus one. Of course women shouldn't be banned from women's sports. Trans women are women.
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  234.  @amandap9332  The Financial Engineers (yes, a real major) are on the case, so they are the ones getting a cut. Thanks for your post. This is beyond insane.
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  235. 12:20 So that's it. Pushed to rehabilitate us after Gaza. I was trying to figure this one out.
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  236.  @AndersPuschel  Of course. Her assertion is not absurd because no environmental factors can ever cause retardation. It is absurd because it is completely unfounded.
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  237.  @entropyvortex2484  All right. If that is a known mechanism, then I am absolutely for a study -- even if that were to mean a study of one, because everyone matters and every child matters. Thanks for the information.
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  238. He is opposed to ALL vaccines. I'm not against taking a critical look at vaccines, strictly case-by-case, or acknowledging that their use has had a sorry history in the Third World, but blanket denunciations of vaccination has always been sheer nonsense, and continues to be nonsense. I have asked for more vaccines than the minimum recommended, based on my own research, and to be able travel freely without worry. Vaccination in general is a great thing. Has information about risk ever been suppressed? Has misuse of vaccines in the global South ever been hushed up? Yes and yes. I'd still take a flu shot, pneumonia shot, tenanus booster, or meningitis shot this minute.
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  239.  @techloidtech2051  I'm not saying there's no truth in your comments. I think there clearly is. I'm saying that you are claiming a blanket certitude that does not exist.
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  240.  @techloidtech2051  There are viral infections that are almost impossible to prevent without vaccination. Everyone who encounters them for the first time will get them. The invasion of the Americas by Europeans proved that. So did polio, a crippling disease that at times was associated with excess hygiene early in life. Shocking but true. The idea that Virtuous Diets or Healthful Outdoor Exercise can prevent all illness is social Darwinian claptrap.
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  241.  @techloidtech2051  I have not endorsed any of the COVID vaccines, or denounced them. I am not qualified to do either. As for making my own personal decision, right now I am reading peer-reviewed journal articles on mRNA published before 2019, for example. My mind is open. And in general, I support vaccination very strongly. In general. And I do not eat GMOs.
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  242.  @techloidtech2051  I think your point about new technology + new virus is a sound point. This is what we always need to take into account, in every type of risk analysis. But it is not determinative. Sometimes the risk of NOT adopting the new technology is greater. I don't know whether it is this time.
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  243.  @omeyehead7436  LOL, true.
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  244. I thought all along that (1) Trump wanted to build in Moscow; and (2) Trump never drew a bright line between being president and making money. Trump is a complete cynic. The "smoke" led to that fire, and that's it.
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  245.  @amoeboidtendencies5137  Yeah, but she usually isn't like that, though.
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  246.  @ChrisSmith-bh2hg  American
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  247.  @ChrisSmith-bh2hg  Look up the BBC article on it (written, not video).
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  248.  @ChrisSmith-bh2hg  The July 29, 2005 BBC article describes the interview, which was on a premier night time news program, and the Russian reaction --- and I just had trouble finding it again, even though I have it bookmarked on my tablet.
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  249. Better masks? Well, it's an idea.
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  250.  @CatholicKierkegaard  Bill Gates said the very same thing about GMOs. It was treated as great wisdom, before, um, that Epstein stuff. (As an aside: The WHO could not be bribed to go along, and said a GMO in food must be proved safe for humans case by case, properly invoking the Precautionary Principle. This is an example of evidence-based human nutrition, actually.)
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  251. I used to think that. Please look it up.
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  252. Matt, we had Afghan "allies" who owned boys for sex, and our troops who protested were told to shut up. One service member who refused to shut up was assassinated. New York Times reported it. So it was in plain sight in every sense of the word, as much as any news story could possibly be. Did anything happen? The parents got a dead body.
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  253. Does he know the closest place to get guns and ammo? He reads well enough for that, I'll bet.
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  254. "Do you know whether you are controlling your bladder and bowels?" "Do you understand the question?"
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  255. The answer was not quite satisfactory. But keep asking. We have heard worse. :/
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  256. @greenbat Sure. That's better.
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  257.  @i8am8kemraj84  Almost no one did. I'm slow to believe it. If my town didn't have the number of shootings it does, everywhere, and especially on public transit, my head would still be in the sand. Had COVID never happened, I'd still be stumbling along, expecting everything to be all right, "probably." Well . . . no. It is not all right. I better get a grip. Your wife is a very lucky woman. Getting a tiny condo somewhere in the US, and getting out with all the rest -- my desire if I can swing it.
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  258.  @morganspicer3105  Why would you offer a dangerous animal to some other family, or to a shelter? How is that ethical? You consult a couple of veterinarians, and if they agree the cat is abnormal and cannot be treated or trusted, then you euthanize it. People come first.
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  259. I don't think that what is happening in Gaza is penetrating people's minds. This isn't meant as an excuse. I think people are generally no longer cognitively or mentally healthy, and it is very serious. Who knows what could happen next? I see nothing better ahead.
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  260. "We are chosen. No one can tell us what to do, we know better." --- said every East Mediterranean ethnic group that ever existed. You're not so special. 😅
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  261. Or better yet, don't.
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  262.  @hywelgriffiths5747  Source? Do we have reliable information on that?
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  263.  @tomasinacovell4293  They said it to Aaron Mate. OKAY they didn't. /s
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  264. I wrote a really derogatory comment about HITLER and it was so bad it was removed. I have never been prouder. (EDIT: No, I didn't swear. How cool is that?)
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  265. The disgrace of it on one side, and the sheer fabrication on the other: Mark Kelly was a captain in the Navy and piloted the Space Shuttle. Both of his parents were police officers. I think he may know a thing or two about guns? The ad would be laughable if his family weren't struck by tragedy. Reminds me of Reagan making training films for the armed forces, while others actually served.
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  266. Katie has no need for the money. She's doing fine. You?
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  267. Remember all the initial reports about how Ukrainians are just like us, and how they are blond?
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  268. Timestamp? Do you dispute that Dore and his wife were vaccinated, that she was a little stiff for a few days and such, then felt fine, and that he had a significant, long-term reaction? Or, if it happens to a former bricklayer, it doesn't count?
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  269. What Musk is trying to do and succeeding is to gain access to data that his mentor Peter Thiel of Palantir fame can use.
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  270. ​ @marie-laure.  More than that, undoubtedly. Musk spends more on lobbying for the laws he wants and on elections than on taxes. Then Musk gets government contracts and buys US Treasuries, and WE owe him our taxes, on the contracts and in interest on the national debt. Who will stop this?
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  271. @andrewlim7751  Who are the "auditors?" Which team? From which public accounting firms? With what experience in forensics (because, of course, there may be crimes to uncover)? Let's have the administration introduce them to the public. They work for us.
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  272. @SThrillz  I was just wondering -- if people can believe this, what resistance will they have to AI?
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  273. @andrewlim7751  Oh I see. So, you don't mean an "audit." You mean tracing an instrument, or a wire transfer, or commercial paper, etc. You said audit. My mistake. In any event, who is tracing what, exactly? And who do they work for? And why do you think that's an easy job? Seems that the cases filed against those who did transfer funds illegally were not easy to prove at all.
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  274. @andrewlim7751  Have you ever had to assist someone whose bank account was stolen? You know they have to prove to the bank's satisfaction that a surrogate did not receive the funds? Have you ever done that?
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  275. @andrewlim7751  Party!?? My party is La France Insoumise.
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  276. @andrewlim7751  Look whose judgment is clouded. Interlocutor, meet mirror. And look up some words. "Ad hominem" and "projection" come to mind -- both DNC specialties, too, as it turns out, to the surprise of no one.
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  277.  @andrewlim7751  Zero for three. 😂👍
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  278. After reviewing human evolution in an origins of human language grad seminar, it struck me that most high school freshmen are too young for this. If taught honestly, certain facets of primate sexuality will come up, and 13 or 14 is young for that. A short time later, I found out that some of the top private schools teach evolutionary biology senior year. That's what you do.
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  279. No! He's recycling a potent brew of Nietzsche and Jung. I remember the last time that came around. I was still in grammar school.
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  280. I wish this sh!t wasn't always in Norman's and Aaron's faces. That they have to deal with it today, AGAIN, is nauseating.
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  281. Oh this was GOOD.
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  282. At the time of the Columbine massacre, the US was quite proud to be bombing cities and regions in former Yugoslavia with depleted uranium, even though these cities and Montenegro had firmly anti-Milosevic governments in place. Don't worry, it doesn't count.
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  283. WOW tremendous photo, Katie!! 1000 watt smile.
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  284. So, you advocate limiting the most fundamental life choices of people while they are very young via bribery -- or do you call it a nudge? Because you think they're "evil?" You do understand that rape is not rare, that reluctance, and all too rational fear to express reluctance, is ordinary, and that rich women, and rich men's girlfriends, will always have options -- including IVF and surrogacy? You get that part, correct? Maybe the problem is general culture. Like from books and discussion and writing, and keeping serious journals, and thinking a lot, and wanting to know things and to be fair.
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  285. You're very much behind the times. Very few people are having pleasure. It has become so unusual that to stand in their way is not a culture of celebrating life. What happened to "CHOOSE Life?" I'm good with that, and always have been, provided the emphasis is on the "choose," where it belongs. Try persuasion, not policing pregnancies and the wombs of utter strangers. Have people read Play It As It Lays, or Hills Like White Elephants. Or read those yourself. I mean, if it's changing the culture that you're really after. I would almost bet money you won't even check to see what's in them.
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  286.  @JosefK2275  Sheer nonsense from beginning to end. Martin Luther King Jr was not for criminalizing abortion, but exactly for what I said: persuasion, and ministering to women who think they want to abort to show them otherwise.
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  287.  @JosefK2275  So you didn't read Play It As It Lays. Why am I not surprised? It presents the story of a woman who regrets her abortion, and is a fine piece of literature, not propaganda.
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  288. It worked splendidly for a no-talent like her. 💰
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  289. SAME
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  290.  @jared_r  Whatever myth you may be invested in at this point is no problem, . . . for me.
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  291.  @jared_r  You must not know who this is. Abby Martin's husband, an anti-war veteran who supported LaRiva Peltier last time. So much for your perspicuity. 😂😂😂
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  292.  @jared_r  You claimed he was a DNC operative. (What, covert?) Check in with your handler. Bad talking points. Blocked
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  293.  @jared_r  I don't follow him. I don't care. I don't plan to live in the US much longer. Nothing would surprise me . . . except good news.
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  294.  @helenahanley  I hope you're right.
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  295. Katie, yes -- do invite your parents. They are GREAT.
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  296. You poor, poor thing.
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  297. Um, that won't work anymore. That's so 2019.
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  298. Always remember that the most obnoxious, irrational person may be a false flag, or someone with a hidden agenda. They may not be articulating a trans-supportive position at all.
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  299. Film buff? Here I thought the rest of the snake had cocaine in it.
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  300. I think the more you insult people, the more you will persuade them to inject a substance into their body. It works for smack.
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  301. ​ @okirrama3587 Letting Peter Thiel's ketamine-addled protégé loose on confidential materials he and Palantir can profit from is the height of common sense. We saw that common sense when Trump turned the country over to Fauci last time.
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  302.  @ringbearer1420  Masks do not involve injecting a drug into your body. The risk-benefit analysis is always relevant in human health, as is the obligation to protect one another.
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  303.  @cybervoid8442  Name-calling tells us something about the one doing the name calling. Intimidating others is a likely motive. You're right, don't feed these poor, deluded souls by being fearful of their puerile rants.
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  304. ​ @Freddiebrockk Because she's useful as window dressing. She diverts simple minds from drawing the obvious conclusion concerning our support for Netanyahu.
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  305. The Ustasi were a small group of Nazi collaborators who were able to exterminate Yugoslav Jews, Serbs, and resistance fighters (such as many Croatian and Slovenian Catholic priests) because of the Nazi occupation. Nedic had a national socialist ideology, but wasn't in a position to participate in any genocide, and Chetnicks were a very mixed bag. Most were simply royalists by default and resisted the Nazis and helped Jews escape. Yet some (very few) even committed war crimes. They weren't as centrally organized the way the other two groups were. The March 27th revolt that brought down the Yugoslav government which had signed a non-aggression pact with Hitler took place in Belgrade, and most of the participants were Serbs. Their ethnicity was not central to their resistance. There weren't many Ustasi, this is true, and most regions of Croatia had few or none. (Did Dalmatia have any? It wasn't a hotspot of collaboration, that's for sure.) They were able to do what they did only because of the Nazi occupation. It's not likely they would have been able, or willing, to do anything of the sort had there been no blitzkrieg and no occupation. In 1941 and after, most Serbs were to the left of most Croatians. Most Serbs were less racially biased than most Croatians. Generalizations, yes, but factual ones. You're just taking sides instead of telling the truth. "It was them, not us!!" --- that stance always reveals who you are.
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  306. 47:41 So, the Invisible Hand of the Free Market isn't enoùgh?!
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  307. Should France surrender? Mexico? Uruguay?
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  308. 42:28 Oh this is getting weird . . .
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  309. "Don't compare COVID with influenza!!!" Dangerous misinformation!!!" "COVID vaccines are just like polio vaccines." Cancel whoever refuses to repeat the loyalty oath.
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  310. @@NaesGalaxy Did you think I got it? I did not. I had concerns, they were not addressed, and when the bullying began, I knew. Even Jay Bhattacharya suggested that (1) people over 50 should consider it, especially if they have any comorbidities; and (2) childhood vaccination with this stuff, or mandates for anyone, are deeply unethical and should never be imposed. I guess he made no one happy? But he was giving good advice.
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  311. Ah. I see you've not met Diderot. 😃
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  312. Why kill the roach? I thought that was worse than seeing the scurrying roach.
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  313. Real responses removed, and mentioning that they are, likewise. Nice.
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  314. Responses re moved, and mention of that fact, likewise. The morality is staggering.
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  315. Do we know this with any certainty? I have an open mind on it, I don't deny it.
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  316. Is it time to rid ourselves of this? Man, or whatever.
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  317. I voted in person, on election day, for LaRiva/Peltier, as a protest against Leonard Peltier's continued imprisonment. After seeing his fantastic lawyer, Kevin Sharp, on Chris Hedges' show, I was heartened -- Sharp is THE best. Tremendous! Well, that interview was taken down . . . when the RT archive was destroyed. If I had been absolutely sure Biden would reunite the children separated from their parents at the border, I would have voted for Biden. I was almost sure he wouldn't, hence there was no way . . . he is a life-long warmonger.
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  318. No one cool needs to have their talking points right. Only losers have to worry about "facts." People without money. Ha ha.
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  319. Richard Wolff's best is right here. Tremendous, brilliant job, thank you all!
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  320. Depends on where the money is. They're happy to do it either way. $$$€€££
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  321. ​ @TheMcgojoh Sure they did.
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  322. Same. ❤
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  323. 24:30 Glenn
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  324. That would put him in his 80s, I believe.
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  325. This isn't working.
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  326. You liar.
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  327.  @black_eagle  There has been some sheer randomness in the deaths from COVID. A person over 50 has appreciable risk. If you aren't, I appreciate your stance. There are people with excellent health habits who almost died and have organ damage from it. I admit I know of no one who actually died.
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  328. If you need something to cheer you up, watch the videos from Fête de l'Humanité this year with Angela Davis in attendance.
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  329. They must have formula over there.
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  330. It's no longer available in the US.
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  331.  @sodapop83  Oh! Thank you!!
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  332. Except that he didn't. It was obvious to me by yesterday that there is no discussing this issue, much less solving the problem. Which is exactly what Mike said.
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  333. 31:20 to the end of Mike's segment. I know about attention spans, etc., but this isn't five full minutes or anything crazy.
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  334. We have to be able to discuss the fact that there exist significant groups that do, in fact, believe X and are fully persuaded that X is true, and prepared to act on that belief, even though X itself is at best dubious and probably outright false.
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  335.  @njsoapdish  No he didn't. Okay. Never mind.
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  336.  @njsoapdish  Right. Never mind. Like I said.
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  337.  @njsoapdish  He didn't say it could happen. (Did you check his pronouns, btw? Did he use the right pronouns?)
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  338. Speaking of parents, these two have awesome parents, . . . angels.
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  339. Just realized how Hillary's laugh is an attenuated Bill Gates.
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  340. No socialist state, not even a social democracy, can keep up with the pace of the arms race set by the US. That's really what capitalism is best at. They took the bait by trying. That alone may have tipped the balance. An untestable hypothesis, obviously.
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  341. He could very legitimately get a full scholarship to SAIC or RISD, yes.
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  342. After the Beslan school massacre, ABC News interviewed the terrorist mastermind who claimed responsibility. Russia protested, the US government said we have a First Amendment. Now tell me why RT is suppressed? We can hear from Nazis and from terrorists, apparently. I wish we did have a First Amendment. Let's go back to that.
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  343. Yes, perfect.
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  344. That's . . . How many people??
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  345. No wonder Hunter had a $81k per month gig sitting on an energy board. Merit based.
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  346.  @web-angel  Exactly. Our lives are more and more fraught with risk. He made a conscious decision by balancing the risks, and his entire family joined. I appreciate his perspective.
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  347. Okay, are you kidding, or do you not know this was a region in Africa with a similar name?
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  348. Sheesh. You're supposed to say they want Hamas to be fruitful and multiply.
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  349.  @IronHeel  He pointlessly hijacked this thread.
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  350. 24:25 Suicide an option?
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  351. Glenn Greenwald did as well, a few days ago on his Rumble show. It was very moving.
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  352. ​ @מיכאלקליין-ש3ס He's "crying?" He's not crying.
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  353. 13:53 Because the BRICS+ look just like NATO.
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  354. Here's a thought. Research and read articles that predate the Russian invasion: say, from 2013 through 2021. That could be something you could do, to avoid current biases. Steven F. Cohen, at the 92nd St. Y with his wife a few years ago, is a good introductory video. His interlocutors tried to get him to say that Russia would not invade Ukraine ("after all"). He declined to do any such thing. Then there's Lev Golinkin, The Nation, Feb. 2019, who has been unequivocally opposed to Putin and of course to the invasion. Read up on who we were supporting in Ukraine since 2014. (Who we were supporting is what is not new.) I think you are naive concerning how a relatively very small group in Ukraine has nevertheless had an outsized influence on the government and military there. As for doubting, pondering, etc. . . . Your musings are important only as long as the dollar is, I'm afraid.
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  355. Oh I see. A crazy has entered the room.
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  356. "There are Jews who are fair, etc.?" It's not rare. They are systematically silenced.
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  357. We don't know the extent of Joe's involvement yet. There is some evidence of illegal kickbacks, among other things.
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  358. As far as the election is concerned, however, I pretty much agree.
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  359. Of course Assange can be extradited now. Biden is in power, so America is a democracy again. /S
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  360. I hadn't noticed, but from what we see, she has impeccable taste. This is my ideal apartment decor.
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  361.  @nohbuddy1  You're counting on people not to read. Or understand what they read.
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  362.  @nohbuddy1  The only white friend I made in this century is a trans woman.
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  363.  @nohbuddy1  I agree the legislation must be strongly denounced.
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  364.  @nohbuddy1  Yeah. Whatever. You said I should talk to actual trans people. I said I do. But whatever. See how YOU twist people's words? Are you okay?
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  365.  @nohbuddy1  Your style of attack is feeding the fascists who push these bigoted laws. No one will dare get involved to denounce them. You really think those right-wing legislators read anything, much less Singal's very long and nuanced article? Ha. Prove that one, it's a doozy.
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  366. She said it didn't go well for Russia and there were other unintended consequences. To me, the contrast means the fall of the USSR was the hoped-for consequence.
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  367. Why wouldn't the US use a Nazi slogan? They operated the Rat Line. Nancy's stupidity here is relatively trivial, and she can always claim it is subject to more than one interpretation. The Rat Line is completely unambiguous. The deaths in the Donbass are unambiguous as well.
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  368. Katie is gorgeous today.
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  369. The neolib globalists collaborate with the extreme right. SURPRISE SURPRISE That never happens, right? 🤔
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  370. DON'T DO THAT TO YOURSELF. Spend some time outside of the US as soon as you can.
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  371. 1. Lawyer-client communications are (supposed to be) confidential. That comes first. 2. This is how a president's son, who himself is a Yale Law School grad, and his lawyer talk. 3. Who doesn't miss the Soviet Union? One more year of this and I'll miss Madame Mao.
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  372. Aaron doesn't like Putin, or support Putin's war.
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  373. To Gene: You can't stop your kids from doing one thing without substituting something else. Have them read good books and take them to good movies. Take them to concerts. Here's an example of what I mean: Rick Beato recently did a video on Martha Argerich. In the comments, MANY people said they have never heard of her before. (!!!!!!) Please don't let that be your kids. Also, let the kids read more mature stuff. Don't worry about that. Murakami, Houellebecq, and all that stuff, even J. M. Coetzee and Arundhati Roy are not appropriate before adolescence, but don't be afraid to get these books for a high school junior, especially if they are already 17 years old or close. Ditto for Cassavetes arthouse movies. I know this may make you nervous, but don't let it. Video games should make you nervous.
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  374. These are all FDA approved, correct?
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  375.  @mr-peabody  I had to look up LARP. Brand consciousness and meming is your thing. You think it's real. 🤣 Say. Who did you trust on that? 😂😂😂
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  376. 28:40 Katrina vanden Heuvel
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  377. This is no "left" I recognize. He creeps me out.
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  378.  @ResoluteDeicide  I'm a Parisian Maoist. The "creeps me out" comment was separate from the political judgment. Does Ryan have politics at all, or a Sixties Caravan "lifestyle?" That was a deliberately apolitical life, and took inspiration from people like Kerouac, who were frequently right of center.
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  379.  @ResoluteDeicide  Oh, if you tell me that they're phonies at worst, unaware at best, and parasitic (someone else has to engage politically, and militarily, to secure this life for them), you'll get no argument from me. Plain as day. But this type of sheer self-indulgence and self-centeredness does not emerge in "collectivist" societies, in whatever way you decide to define that. I mean, follow a historian-archeologist-anthropologist like Emanuel Todd, if you like (probably the best of the bunch on this point). Or consider Marx's vision of an eventual communist society. Or modern-day Vietnam. It really doesn't matter. It's a subculture you find most often in the Five Eyes, and especially in its leader, the US. By far the US. But believe what you like. Blaming the Other is an American tradition.
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  380. People who are surprised by the COVID origins coverup, thinking it would be impossible -- just look at the JFK assassination coverup.
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  381. Sounds like Taibbi's book will be super!
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  382.  @atom_gray  If ALL present in an indoor area were vaccinated? Fine. Otherwise, you still need masks, because people who are vaccinated are protected against severe COVID, but we already know they can get mild COVID and can test positive and be symptom free. We have to presume they are contagious to the unvaccinated, until proven otherwise. See the NYTimes Upshot article for full details.
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  383.  @atom_gray  Sorry. Not clear without @ Or maybe the "this" is unclear? So we agree, apparently?
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  384. They also mentioned money for war rather than firefighters.
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  385. It may have been filmed before the announcement.
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  386. Does anyone think any major foreign power, friend or foe, is not collecting polling data to predict our presidential elections?
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  387. I taught kids in community college who were rotating the couch they slept on. What do you call them? I don't call them homeless OR housed. They are neither. In Britain, they say "sleeping rough," meaning outdoors. If they have nowhere else to go, it's called homeless. If they can double up with cousins, etc., they are unhoused. Maybe you don't know these people?
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  388. I taught kids in community college who were rotating the couch they slept on. What do you call them? I don't call them homeless OR housed. They are neither. In Britain, they say "sleeping rough," meaning outdoors. If they have nowhere else to go, it's called homeless. If they can double up with cousins, etc., they are unhoused. Maybe you don't know these people?
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  389. ​ @billtomson5791 If they've never been ordered deported and stayed here against the court's order, they aren't "illegal."
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  390. In France, Sorbonne, Hautes Etudes, ENS, etc., are tuition-free, and fees are under 1000€ a year. In America, free community college -- no can do.
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  391. Loved that.
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  392. After then Beslan school massacre, ABC News interviewed the terrorist mastermind who claimed responsibility. Russia protested, the US government said we have a First Amendment. Now tell me why RT is suppressed? We can hear from Nazis and from terrorists, apparently. I wish we did have a First Amendment. Let's go back to that.
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  393. Thank you for the recommendations!
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  394. That is the problem. We do not know the true rate of harm. We don't have a proper audit, we have a problem of both false reports and under reporting. All we know is that there has been harm. We don't know how it compares to, say, the flu vaccine.
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  395. Of all the commercials he could have made, he picked a shootout with Gabby Gifford's husband? BTW, Kelly was a Navy Captain and an astronaut who piloted the Shuttle. He was also a Navy pilot in war zones. Last I heard, the Navy trains people in how to shoot straight. Also, his parents were . . . police officers. And you're a dupe of memes. Nice going.
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  396. Wait. You're kidding. Right?
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  397.  @doradodude140  Was there a good way for the last election to end?
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  398.  @doradodude140  None of them were candidates after the early primaries, were they? Primaries that are advisory only, given the superdelegate system.
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  399.  @doradodude140  Only bad and vastly worse. A postponement of vastly worse?
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  400. This one apparently does.
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  401. Gorgeous hair, Katie.
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  402. Buttigieg is on parental leave. C'mon guys, don't you like children?
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  403. It's working for a lot of people. The top ten percent have unimaginable affluence, and that's over 30 million people, a decent-sized country. They don't live in the world you see here. Some of them are thinking of a way to cash in; don't think none of their portfolios have shares of gun manufacturers in them. Their brokers make sure they do.
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  404.  @nathanfielure4305  Me too. I'm emigrating by 2024, and it feels akin to leaving a domestic abuser. It's only hard for a short time. Every "Next Big Thing" that was cooked up over the last four decades has "somehow" harmed my family. Somehow, someone always made a buck, though. Every time.
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  405.  @alexanderleuchte5132  I would most likely hope so.
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  406.  @johnkayoss5422  Not everybody embraces an American lifestyle. People have a right to diversity and stuff.
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  407.  @johnkayoss5422  I was being ironic, obviously. I don't know any drunks. Any special reason you thought of them, and so quickly? Never mind, just kidding. Bourgeois Americans use more drugs than other people, especially those non-Western peoples not (yet) living under Free Market Disciple. 🤣 Where did I tell anyone what to do? I don't think marijuana should have ever been prohibited in any way. WHOM I ASSOCIATE WITH is still MY choice, though if they force themselves on me and I get pregnant that could pose problems. Let me know if you have any other directives for me, or venom. Or, consider cleaning up your own act and loving the natural mind. It's just an idea. Don't pop a blood vessel, you sound too young for that.
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  408.  @johnkayoss5422  It's based on my experience with habitual pot smokers, meaning long-term and daily. I'm allowed to use lived experience as my guide. Maybe your imagination could use a tweak? Or could your posts be special pleading?
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  409.  @johnkayoss5422  I don't hang around with whites much at all. It always ends up like this.
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  410.  @johnkayoss5422  What part of I love and respect my mind too much for any of that stuff is sooooo hard for you to get? Talk to a friend before bed tonight. I'm serious.
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  411.  @johnkayoss5422  I have nothing to do with puritanism. Not my circus, not my clowns. You, on the other hand, have a limited set of paradigms, and that's the closest one to you on your shelf. I get to say who I want to be with. I know you think you do. What you don't understand is that you DON'T. The world is changing, though your little corner of it is still arranged to serve you. Stay vigilant, because that could change, too. Talk to a friend tonight.
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  412.  @johnkayoss5422  Listen, you are SO barking up the wrong tree. My family is from one of those places you and your ilk bombed with DU. I'll be there this year, fingers crossed. (Are all your conversations in English? Oh no!) 🤣
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  413.  @johnkayoss5422  IOW, I'm supposed to take a poll on this? That's the utilitarian definition of truth. Cross the Channel, nevermind heading east or south, and nobody thinks that. Read David Riesman. Or better yet, James Baldwin, if you can bear it.
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  414. I thought that all along the story was that Trump was a coward who scurried off to a bunker below the White House. The grabbing the wheel story benefits Trump.
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  415. Does reduce risk for a short period. They are not going to admit the vaccine is a disappointment. It's not a failure, as it was a hard vaccine to develop, but it's not great.
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  416. This is who he always was.
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  417. Nice new thumbnail graphic. Actually looks like Katy.
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  418. It's light entertainment, not an Eric Rohmer film.
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  419.  @rawlsrules  Sure, okay.
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  420.  @rawlsrules  Just watched My Night at Maud's again. Gave me good dreams.
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  421. Complicit? They love it.
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