Comments by "L.W. Paradis" (@l.w.paradis2108) on "Police State Law Makes Filming Police Illegal!" video.

Barb Richardson Yeah, that was Macron's partisans' attempt to smear them. After the 2019 general strike and the convergence of the demonstrations, that smear died.
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Impossible. The French revolutionaries made it their aim to end slavery in their colonies.
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@TheDrewSaga That's normal. For France, I mean.
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@krillin876 It has to do with whether the French revolutionaries could possibly be "inspired" by a war of independence of farflung colonies, which is how all Europeans saw the American Revolution. Newsflash: only Americans call it a "revolution." The French overthrew their monarchy, and their rrevolutionaries pressed for ending slavery on any soil anywhere that was under French control.
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@bgoodfella7413 Well, maybe your tweeting will "accomplish" something.
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@Ludlow889 Let me see if I understand. According to you, the virus has not been identified, there are many false positives, BUT we can use seropositivity to estimate mortality rates. You know, you can find biologists, real ones, who tout Creation Science. And a member of the Manson family married a Harvard Law grad while she was in prison. As for the policy debates on how best to deal with COVID, the left in most places has insisted we open a conversation. This is true of France Insoumise, this is true of Jimmy Dore. The reason it is getting so little traction in the US is because nothing the political leaders have done so far has been rational. It is not evident where to start. Citing false, misleading, or discredited studies is not the place.
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@jillyjoan8416 LOL, this!
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@SuperJMichael No problem. What's the point of having the largest military in human history if you can't dictate stupid little things like facts? Right, there's no point. So be my guest.
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@Volticymo A 57% disapproval rating is not bad, for MACRON. It has been well above 70%.
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Citation? I follow their press, and don't recall that.
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@jillyjoan8416 Is she all right now?
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@SuperJMichael Speaking of slavery, America just brought it back to Libya, but anyway . . . The American "left" did that -- which is (still) the "right" everywhere else.
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@Volticymo I said 57% *disapproval*, which represents a large improvement for Macron. Trump has generally had lower disapproval ratings. Macron has been a lackey of the banks, he has dubious associates (you've forgotten Alexandre Benalla?), and has been a disappointment since before the end of his first year in office. The show of authoritarianism is relatively recent and appears as though it might be half-hearted. But Macron's disdain for ordinary people was on display from the start. He puts his heart into condescension all right. France has been having weekly demonstrations for two years now, the Gilets Jaunes having begun in late fall 2018, with a break only during the COVID lockdown. Everyone except diehard partisans are disillusioned with Macron. At this rate, France will end up in a depression.
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Everyone is mentioning this, but listening to it a couple of times, I think he probably misspoke. He made parallel comparisons between the US and France on two subjects, and in the second one he said Macron is imitating our neoliberal class on matters of police state. I think he just accidentally reversed the order in the first comparison. 4:15
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@bgoodfella7413 Yeah, remember the Viet Nam War and civil rights? /s
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@bgoodfella7413 Well, if I pretended I was far less demoralized than you are, I would be lying, but there is a difference between seeing some possibility and none at all. A very large difference, in fact.
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@krillin876 Is that the RT affiliate in Berlin?
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Neoliberals of the Clinton/Blair, DNC stripe who support Brussels are considered right of center in Europe, and Macron fits in perfectly. He is more true to type than a lot of DNC people.
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Barb Richardson Non-Anglo-Saxons are always smeared, by all sides, here. The further you are from a Protestant germanic heritage, the greater the chance that you'll either be labeled a fascist or patronized. (As in, Biden telling a crowd in Iowa that “poor kids are just as bright and just as talented as white kids.")
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The demonstrations started in the late fall of 2018, and there was a general strike late last year, with firefighters taking the side of demonstrators and protecting them. This went on for weeks. Follow the French press. So what if you don't understand everything they're saying? There is so much shouting that a lot of people don't. You'll get the idea. :)
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Barb Richardson Did "the right" show pictures of firefighters siding with demonstrators against the police during the general strike last year? I didn't think so.
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@lunarmodule6419 Yes. Going on two years.
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@blackalien6873 Thank you. It was a war of independence.
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@gigagogo3147 Have you ever lived in France? I'd give anything to go back.
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@ludlow 889 Where did I say I support shutdowns? Much less shutdowns with no discussion of alternatives? I said the opposite. A handful of hotspots had hospitals and morgues overwhelmed, and drastic measures had to be taken -- but it would have made more sense to do a hard, brief shutdown of those areas, rather than a nation-wide soft shutdown. Dore himself asked why small businesses had to close, but Amazon warehouses stayed open. I couldn't find most of the data you cite, and you didn't answer my question about the LOGIC. If it's true these tests are generating huge numbers of false positive results, then it is USELESS to look at death rates by seropositivity, since the seropositive might not even have been exposed to the virus, much less sick from it. You have to look at case mortality -- how many confirmed COVID sufferers, who actually got sick, died of their disease. Personally, I'm more upset by the shutdowns, and consider them a danger to my health and wellbeing, than I am about COVID. I'm not afraid of COVID. But my personal feelings about the thing don't matter. Medical science matters.
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@ludlow 889 So try posting the links again. I'm good at research, and have not found your studies, except the one that a researcher at MIT debunked.
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@ludlow 889 Non sequitur. I did not suggest counting people who were sick with something else and died of that illness, but tested positive for COVID, as true cases. Back to the false positive problem. You aren't answering my objections. Tootles.
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@ludlow 889 Oh! Your ad hominem is so persuasive! You must be trying hard to persuade. This is why the entire planet has had its fill of you. Which brings us back to the original post, and Jimmy's video: France is in the streets, and has been for two years, because it does not want Reaganism-Thatcherism, and the bullying culture and mindset it represents, to destroy its country. That is a bigger pestilence than any virus.
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@gigagogo3147 Well, I had just the opposite experience, personally. I was there for five years and left for family reasons. Misguided, very likely. You don't know what you've got 'til it's gone. Of course, America changed in the meantime, too. I didn't come back to the place I left.
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@gigagogo3147 I can relate to that. I don't mind it (the smaller spaces), but if you've lived in Canada or Australia, I can really see how you'd prefer it.
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@The_Ballo Love to see a history buff. Facts do matter.
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I think he just misspoke -- right after that, he said our moves to install a police state were being copied by Macron. IOW, he made parallel comparisons.
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@jillyjoan8416 I am so sorry. I hate to hear this at any time, but especially when there is a nasty upper respiratory virus going around. I hope she is going to get some fresh air, good food, and rest on Sunday. This is not good. And at 19, people think they are immortal.
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Everyone is mentioning this, but listening to it a couple of times, I think he just misspoke. He made parallel comparisons between the US and France on two subjects, and in the second one he said Macron is imitating our neoliberal class on matters of police state. I think he just accidentally reversed the order in the first comparison. 4:15
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Yeah, listening to it a couple of times, I think he just misspoke. He made parallel comparisons between the US and France on two subjects, and in the second one he said Macron is imitating our neoliberal class on matters of police state. I think he just accidentally reversed the order in the first comparison. 4:15
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Everyone is mentioning this, but listening to it a couple of times, I think he just misspoke. He made parallel comparisons between the US and France on two subjects, and in the second one he said Macron is imitating our neoliberal class on matters of police state. I think he just accidentally reversed the order in the first comparison. 4:15
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Enough Americans are still too rich, or want to be.
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@blueseaview 22 I hate to agree with you, but you're mostly right. The emphasis on a single generation is exaggerated, but other than that . . .
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THIS
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@Volticymo Where in my post did I compare Macron to a dictator, etc.? I said his recent authoritarianism seems half-hearted, though his disdain for most people not of his class is astounding, and repugnant to the vast majority of the French, who don't go in for that sort of thing at all. I am pleased to see you discredit yourself with your gross non sequitors.
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Gene Eric "He's regularly used police . . . " = "He has . . . " (the grammar is fine) I thought it was stylistically rather elegant, though style is purely a matter of opinion.
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@bgoodfella7413 No one can criticize you for that. Well, phonies can, but anyway . . .
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@History Eraser Button You're right. Thank you for the reality check.
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