Comments by "L.W. Paradis" (@l.w.paradis2108) on "The Chris Hedges YouTube Channel" channel.

  1. And we wonder how "the Germans" were able to look away . . .
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  2. In the early 1980s, I still remember the would-be PMC railing against steel workers and accusing them of being overpaid(!) I asked one woman if she knew that at USS Southworks, there was at least one death every year. She gave me a blank stare.
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  3. Thanks, Jimmy, for releasing the entire video! Sweet!!
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  4. There is NO WAY any American corporation could move its factories to Asia without the support of the federal government. No way, none.
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  5. People who do the right thing end up with no money.
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  6. Yes, she is outdoing herself tonight!!
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  7.  @fromeveryting29  We have very few choices, and most people know it.
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  8.  @1848revolt  Also correct. Adam Smith would be heaven compared to this.
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  9.  @50-50_Grind  Oh, that's funny. One would think the Democrats would have proposed a viable candidate not once but twice, and certainly after 2016. One would think they would have gotten serious.
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  10. Brecht's Antigone comes to mind, too.
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  11. When I think of Biden, I only remember the vaccine mandates, and a trans woman flashing us on the White House lawn..
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  12. 1:02:30 No, Jimmy. The Department of Education is what does allocate money to the states to educate special needs children along side all children. Ending the Department won't send money back to the states.
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  13. Chris Hedges has a Master's of Divinity and was a war correspondent for decades. He will speak with anyone. Jimmy's "sins" are mild.
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  14. Was this a good video or not?
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  15. @janetwalk4996  The ancients talk about the marketplace all the time, and Socrates and Plato talk about the Sophists and their very lucrative commercial ventures all the time. The Sophists made great fortunes in an interesting way. They claimed there was no such thing as truth, and they proposed to teach others to speak in order to persuade, because persuading in the market and in politics -- in other words, coming out on top -- was all that mattered. Anyone who thought otherwise was either jealous or a child. (Sound familiar?) The Gorgias is the best one, for all the gory details, and the Apology, for the poetry. This is over 2400 years old. Not for nothing that Marx did his doctorate on even earlier Greek philosophy.
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  16.  @FuIhat  I was shadowed twice, I think. Defending Anya was one.
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  17. Start by ditching your smart phone, Alexa, and MASK.
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  18.  @DirkDingle  😂😂😂 but kind-of horrifying
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  19. Brilliant post
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  20. Truly insightful philosophical analysis -- thank you so much. Every ideological opposition seems to be some version of Aristotle (Foucault) contra Plato (Marx).
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  21.  @janetwalk4996  But in short, commerce is WAY older. No comparison.
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  22. 23:19 East Germany, Czechoslovakia, and Roumania are not the real problem and never were. No, never. They had big problems, they were not the problem.
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  23. I love these. They are the funniest threads on YT.
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  24. @lonepantalones8284  Should have been removed by now. Good posts are all the time. Huh. 🤔
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  25.  @mohamedosman5422  True
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  26. Isn't that consistent with what she said? I'm misunderstanding you, perhaps.
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  27. She mentioned it in connection with wealthy Hollywood types who don't have any medical need for it.
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  28. ​@ICUFREE2 But this is well known: it is the phenomenon of double consciousness most notably and eloquently described by Franz Fanon, but also many others as well -- quite a few other writers and scholars originally from the Caribbean. It is the simultaneous construction of an identity, coupled with the full consciousness that that identity is denied and a false identity is imposed upon you by the oppressors. So in the end, you know your mind and their mind, but they only know their own mind in a limited, unreflective way, convinced as they are that their construction of reality is the "true" reality, it is "scientific," "realistic," and all that. In fact, they don't know what's going on at all. I'm just writing out what you've always known.
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  29. ​ @zasterheffor  Recommend some readings, please. Very important, especially now.
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  30. Wow. Where to start? Gender nonsense is a classic false flag. What do you think Liu opposes?
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  31. Some do. You hear Levy wonder if he can stay.
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  32. @robert9ish  This was produced by TJDS in its entirety, not Chris.
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  33. HSBC!! Read The Guardian series on how they laundered drug money for the major cartels. British politicians asked the US not to prosecute . . . TBTJ.
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  34. ​@lesliestenta3084 Agreed. My post is shadowed, but visible under the Newest tab.
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  35. 46:41 There certainly was discussion on the French left concerning the COVID measures. The first person I heard push back on firing medical personnel who worked throughout the pandemic, were exposed and recovered, and now declined vaccination was Fabien Gay, the Communist Party leader. Clémentine Autain questioned certain measures, such as vaccine passports. In the end, the left in the National Assembly made it illegal to ask a minor their vaccine status, and after that, no one confronted anyone. The victory of the New Popular Front came as less of a surprise to me than most to people. Had they not taken this stand, they would not have won.
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  36. Billionaires will make sure you aren't hired.
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  37. ​ @ColeNasrallah 😂😂😂 It could be well-neigh impossible to get it from anyone else, in Brazil. But going straight to the publisher probably would have resulted in the book being promised in three months, AND delivered in 2 1/2.
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  38. @Bolshibhoy  Joined two months ago? And so disciplined, too. Ready to resist.
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  39. @susanmercurio1060 Thank you for this recommendation.
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  40. HSBC!! Read The Guardian series on how they laundered drug money for the major cartels. British politicians asked the US not to prosecute . . . TBTJ.
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  41. But they padded their wallets, somehow.
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  42. 46:41 There certainly was discussion on the French left concerning the COVID measures. The first person I heard push back on firing medical personnel who worked throughout the pandemic, were exposed and recovered, and then declined vaccination was Fabien Gay, the Communist Party leader. Clémentine Autain questioned certain measures, such as vaccine passports, and she usually votes with the PCF. In the end, the left in the National Assembly made it illegal to ask a minor their vaccine status, and after that, no one confronted anyone. The victory of the New Popular Front came as less of a surprise to me than most to people. Had they not taken this stand, they would not have won, I think.
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  43. 40 billion dollars is almost $20 million a year since the Crucifixion.
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  44. @MattAngiono  Now that you mention it . . .
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  45. DUH . . . No one read any ancient Greek works? Does agora ring a bell?
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  46. Why is it so much harder to get a French person to adopt self-loathing? Why are they unbowed?
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  47. Brecht's Antigone comes to mind.
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  48. That's a joke in France, heard it from Aude Lancelin and Emmanuel Todd: What is a philosemite? An antisemite who likes Jews.
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  49. ​@EmphaticNoticing The joke's on you but it's not funny.
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  50. So, will all jobs in the future be a handful of Elons doing their celebrity ape act?
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  51. My heart also breaks for all the Israelis who've wanted peace and justice their whole lives. What that must be like . . .
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  52. And yet he oozes lack of self-confidence. WHY?? May as well join the globalists. The pay is better.
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  53. ​ @nomnomyam9379 Maybe because she's very beautiful and he has issues.
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  54. Oh really? This is OUR doing. WE (and our billionaires) supported Likud and Netanyahu, against all the Israelis who have wanted peace with justice for three generations. All that human rights claptrap has always been an excuse to kill.
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  55. Half of the replies are shadowed. Sort by Newest and see.
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  56. Great recommendation, but Hedges reads all the time. Can't you tell??
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  57.  @susanmercurio1060  I'm planning to. I told you in another thread, where I thanked you for the suggestion.
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  58.  @moodist1er  He did have massive support. And no president in my memory had 50% + 1 of all eligible voters. In any case, that wasn't what I was referring to.
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  59. @moodist1er  Actually, when the country my parents were from signed a non-aggression treaty with Germany, the people overthrew the government. My father was in that movement.
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  60.  @moodist1er  The reply I did not expect to be censored isn't here. The one I thought was verboten is. Waddya know?
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  61.  @moodist1er  Too bad my real answer is _________. Great, huh?
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  62. @singingway  Yes, monopoly capital is antithetical to democracy. At this point, it merely takes lifting the veil of propaganda to see it.
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  63. The kind we once laughed at when they threatened us with it.
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