Comments by "L.W. Paradis" (@l.w.paradis2108) on "CBS Evening News" channel.

  1.  @nancymiller4557  That has nothing to do with this. And many of the Founders were disestablishmentarianists. Seriously, it was a movement, to make sure no public money went to support any church in any form.
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  2. Other countries have more choices of mRNA or non-mRNA vaccines. I intend to get vaccinated but I don't like how this has been politicized. They are constantly trying to bully, browbeat, and shame people over what is a personal decision. The more I hear this, the less I want the vaccine. They'll talk me out of it in the end, when they shouldn't influence me, or anyone, at all.
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  3.  @Lp78Ch  He also makes false claims of knowledge that NO ONE HAS, yet. I don't trust people who cannot say, "we don't know, we're studying that now."
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  4. ​ @nolongerblocked6210 They sure didn't acquit themselves on that score, or defend free speech very well.
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  5.  @silencedogood9747  💯 It is amazing, isn't it?
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  6.  @medbob1  In America, you can fly or burn any flag. That makes us different. Different is good.
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  7. Shows what you know.
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  8. ​@cre8tion26 He's too intelligent for the audience, looks like.
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  9.  @malebovinemanure  The questions were shameless grandstanding, and as long as she excoriates someone not on your team, you think it's brilliant.
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  10.  @Kimbas3274  Why do you think? 💰 💰 💰
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  11.  @babyspider99  💰 💰 💰
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  12.  @MEOWMIX305  Read, think, sleep on it. Might come to you in the morning?
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  13. @bluhturn1051  Do you not see that ethnic French are demonstrating, too? And that this is nothing new? Several years ago, police were fighting the striking firefighters. Firefighters were defending demonstrators from the police, in the streets. It has been going on for YEARS now. Yes, this is a paroxym, and it has taken a more serious form. But anything could have triggered it, with President Investment Banker at the helm.
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  14.  @MEOWMIX305  I did. Maybe it was subjected to the shadows of sense or ship.
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  15. @MEOWMIX305  Did you see the video? The car was stationary. It is perfectly clear on the recording that one of the police threatened the kid with a bullet to the head. Only then did he start moving and was immediately shot in the chest. Wasn't this translated into English for you? I know that in America police act like a hostile occupying army, shooting over a thousand people every year, but up until neoliberalism, globalism, WEF, and the major investment bankers taking control, this was unheard-of anywhere in Europe.
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  16. @MEOWMIX305  Now what do the police do, besides turn it over to the prosecutor? I guess they miss their chance for live target practice. Aw shucks.
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  17.  @DrVelvetPHD  All true.
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  18. ​ @linguaphile42 Are they secure? Do they know they will never end up hungry or on the street? Think for a minute. I can't stand consumerism either. Oprah became a billionaire by promoting it.
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  19.  @linguaphile42  You think that's where that kind of money comes from? Advertising (= propaganda; see, e.g., Bernays) is what you are swimming in, like the fish that says, "Huh? What's water?" It is one of the most important "industries" in a service economy that runs on debt.
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  20.  @linguaphile42  People in many poor countries are far more secure than we are. They can count on having the same basic necessities tomorrow as they did yesterday to a much larger degree than we can, unless the capitalist rovers show up at their door to loot their real assets (basic materials, land, etc.). You really don't know what finance capitalism is and how it operates, do you? Even Adam Smith (especially Adam Smith) warned against the rentier class, which is essentially unproductive and looks for ways to escape the discipline inherent in true free market competition. Your sentimentality is misplaced.
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  21.  @linguaphile42  Everywhere where I've lived where equality was greater also had calmer, more stable,mand happier people. True in France, true in American cities. Money becomes not a means to good ends, but pure addiction with all that that entails. It's no accident Epstein moved in the circles that he did. He attracted those people.
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  22. @linguaphile42  I know you're into feelies. No worries. I have a (multilingual) library. Don't hold it against me. It's just one of those things about a diverse world. That may sound facetious and smug, but I'm actually being sincere now. It's not something I can talk about in general without getting in trouble. I could talk about my sex life first.
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  23. @linguaphile42  Oh, she has hurt people along the way: by promoting The Secret, Dr. Phil, Dr. Oz, a ton of other worthless gurus, and various consumer culture manias. None of these people are honest about how they built their fortunes, and all of them are literally insatiable. There are worse people around, I'll agree to that. Anyone modeling this lifestyle and claiming to be progressive ends up poisoning people's minds against actual progressive policies, exactly like Ocasio Cortez has done. They are rightly written off as phony. (Say, how old do you think I am?)
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  24. @linguaphile42  Also, you're not sure I'm "very nice" at all. That's fine. You have my full permission to experience any normal, honest, human emotion.
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  25.  @linguaphile42  Look up the notorious guru John of God, sentenced to several hundred years. Read up on that one. It's important.
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  26.  @matthewbalsinger3238  They seem not to understand that a person cannot contribute to the circumstances that led to their need to defend themselves, then claim perfect self-defense. Self-defense does not work that way. This is a close case. The one survivor has the most valuable testimony.
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  27.  @YoungSandyGray  And not watching very carefully. This was widely reported. Scandal that another country had to assert it was real.
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  28.  @YoungSandyGray  We were told, "well, sometimes young men get myocarditis anyway." Pfft.
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  29. No European country allows police to shoot in these exact circumstances. Americans, on the other hand, adore a boot to the face, to paraphrase the poet Sylvia Plath.
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  30.  @Johnarchiebald  I don't think they have to, but adopting speech codes is trickier than embracing free speech, which comes complete with a century of jurisprudence. If they had a code instead, and enforced it inequitably, they would be sued under Title VI because they take federal money.
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  31.  @ustmissouri8029  No, free speech does not carry "severe consequences." That's sort of like, you are free to refuse to allow police to enter your home if they come without a warrant, but if you don't let them in anyway, you will face severe consequences. You are free to decline to answer questions without a lawyer present, but if you don't talk, you will face severe consequences.
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  32. ​ @johnsmith7140  no, you are.
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  33. ​ @erin_3569 It does. We live among savages. There is no evidence that could possibly dissuade them. They support this.
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  34.  @jamestoney6599  He was on a public street carrying a gun he wasn't supposed to have on that public street. I'd like more attention paid to whoever gave it to him, then was "mysteriously" nowhere to be found when things got hot. The kid could have easily been killed.
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  35. @charityakampumuza5632  Hm, so, who has she promoted, or covered for? Harvey Weinstein The Secret authors/grifters Bill Gates Dr. Phil Dr. Oz John of God, sentenced to several hundred years for trafficking That's just off the top of my head. I don't blame her for the scandal at the school she founded in South Africa, unless the issues there persisted.
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  36.  @tylerl4768  Exactly. The veterans I know agree with you.
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  37. She did a halfway decent job, though just barely. Wow, you fall for outrage peddling way too easily.
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  38. ​ @VelvetJazz ​ That is not generally subject to discipline, IF the full scope of First Amendment freedom of speech is embraced. Under the First Amendment, you can't ban cross burning or flag burning, or even an abstract call for violence. See Brandenburg v Ohio; RAV v City of St. Paul. See what the Court struck down there -- Scalia opinion, to boot. I don't know whether Harvard upholds the First Amendment. It is private, so as long as it enforces a speech code fairly, it doesn't have to embrace free speech. If it discriminates in enforcement, it has a Title VI problem again.
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  39. @frankfurtur5531  Most private universities have adopted the First Amendment and all the jurisprudence that comes with it, into their codes of conduct, and they maintain designated First Amendment fora on their grounds. PEN America explains this well. Everything Harvard has said up until now leads me to conclude they do, but I didn't check. All state schools have to obey the First Amendment. I hope everyone knows that much. Billionaires can't intercede there and force speech codes.
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  40.  @frankfurtur5531  Wait. You mean you still don't know?
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  41.  Paul GodsReal Parker  Psy-ops, to make legitimate questions sound deranged.
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  42.  @MJLOVEnow  You mean you don't know? Lol.
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  43. @MJLOVEnow  Of course. Like many in Hollywood, she was very close to Weinstein and she improbably claimed she knew nothing about how he treated women. Everyone knew, and her resources for vetting people are second to none. That's the least one can say. One could also say that she helped lend credibility to Weinstein. A lot of men in Hollywood did that as well.
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  44. @MJLOVEnow  Among others she has promoted: the grifters who wrote The Secret, Dr. Phil, Dr. Oz, Bill Gates. And the notorious guru John of God, sentenced to hundreds of years for his role in trafficking.
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  45. ​ @alonenotalone75 Good points. You are rational. Expect pushback. :/
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  46.  @benfranklin3638  I agree with this.
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  47.  Jeremy Purdue  No, cigarettes are not "FDA approved."
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  48. He had a right to be there. He thought Rittenhouse was an active shooter, and had a basis for that belief.
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  49.  @nturavrgchick6055  I'm not rooting for any "team." I don't agree with the law that Rittenhouse is being charged with violating in the first place, because it mandates charging all juveniles as adults. I'm opposed to such laws, in all circumstances. The adults who put Rittenhouse in this position have a lot to answer for, as do all the ones who are trying to make him out to be a quasi-hero. Repugnant bunch.
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  50.  @nturavrgchick6055  There was no need for a Kyle. Get that straight. This is the last thing this KID needed. Kenosha did not need Kyle, Kyle did not need Kenosha. Small point, which may or may not apply here: a person cannot contribute to creating the need to defend themselves with deadly force, and then claim perfect self-defense when they use deadly force. I don't know that Rittenhouse did. But that IS the law.
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