Comments by "L.W. Paradis" (@l.w.paradis2108) on "The Grayzone" channel.

  1. They have destroyed all of our lives. This is a mirror that foretells the future.
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  2. The divide-and-conquer is obvious: Some of these people will lose their homes to the BlackRocks of the world. Only some, so that the rest breathe a sigh of relief and turn away. Then those who think they're safe will see a series of other, seemingly disconnected things happen, like persistent problems with utilities, especially water, then tax issues that require paying a high-priced lawyer to fix, but it does get fixed, seemingly . . . Death by a thousand different, tiny cuts . . . Ultimately, they will be priced out. Oh well, "get a better job, . . . "
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  3. ​​ @drewdrewson1384 Those who know why it's superior and can explain it intelligently don't get to reply and appear here. You get that, right?
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  4. ​ @drewdrewson1384 We know. If we write, the Shadow takes over.
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  5. ​ @angelshalo06 How is it that you can make multiple posts but those of us who disagree, and can provide solid reasons, are in the shadows?
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  6. ​ @angelshalo06  My father had one of the best specialists in the world for his condition while on Medicare -- and if this no longer happens, time to take political action.
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  7. Several months ago Putin acted decisively to undermine US energy independence. Don't people at NYTimes see this, and appreciate the ramifications? Or do they look away, because it disrupts their pet "narratives?" This was something Putin himself did, for real -- though the people whose water was polluted by fracking may be grateful.
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  8. Not to mention that some of the tribal leaders who were supposedly our "allies" in Afghanistan had child sex slaves. US service members were in some cases ordered to ignore it. One American soldier who couldn't ignore it and tried to put a stop to it was assassinated. This was all reported by the NYTimes, as well as the independent press, of course. They couldn't hide it.
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  9. Your hyperbole is mild at most. A substantial minority of Anglo-Saxons have always endorsed Nazi "racial" hierarchies, for one thing. Hell, the rat line wasn't purely cynical. There was real sympathy for a lot of these monsters.
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  10.  @markswang8987  You are so on target, thank you. Have a good year!
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  11. I really liked Ben Aris and admire his perspective and his style, but there is one thing I can't quite get past. Westerners always seem to assume, tacitly, that the raw materials of non-Western countries have to be shared with them. Why? Why should every country's resources have to be shared with countries so quick to eviscerate that country at the first opportunity? What is a free market? Isn't it the freedom to say NO, I do not want to enter into contracts with you? Wouldn't that be included in a free market? I assure you that this attitude is not part of the non-Western mentality. I can't get past it. Russia does not owe natural gas to Western Europe. Will the West attack Russia to get it? Your heating, your problem. Isn't that what is said to the working classes by Western neoliberals?
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  12.  @menwithven8114  Relatively speaking, I don't disagree. I consider Biden's record to be that of a full-fledged warmonger.
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  13. Best political journalist working in the Americas. Aaron and Max, too!
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  14.  @johnybalohny  Yes.
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  15. @johnybalohny  Well, fine. I didn't go to those lengths. There is good reason to believe that at least some elections in Chicago are not by a secret ballot. I've personally seen it. They have font big enough to read across the room and then run out of sleeves to put them in, etc. Yes, in my precinct, that happened.
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  16.  @johnybalohny  Great. I replied. Scents erred.
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  17. @johnybalohny  I included info about non see cret voting in Chi-town. I mean that I myself saw. No no to share?
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  18.  @johnybalohny  Tried again. No dice.
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  19. @kat kin Yeah, cha-ching!
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  20. @hunkgod Great. You've made my point in a single word. Stability has more than one leg, and at least one is shaky.
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  21. @john lee True, that. It only wants certain stabilities, and very few of them, like preventing even a mild, generalized inflation, which would benefit debtors to the detriment of bondholders. That would be an instability it would be sure not to allow. All the rest are grist for the mill.
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  22. To think this is only a CIVIL case she is fighting right now.
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  23. Samantha Power: But this is different, this is our genocide.
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  24.  @andrethorpe6183 Dirty business. :/
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  25.  @andrethorpe6183  Whoa. So it must be directed at screenname + key word? Is that it?
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  26.  @andrethorpe6183  Not to mention all the thoroughly vicious and unhinged comments that stay up! Well, they do serve to drive division, and to make us believe everyone is highly irrational. But just try countering them with straight facts and sound arguments. . . .
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  27.  @thesandqueen2559  Oh my goodness. :) :/
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  28. 8:18 THIS Lying about Trump was by far the biggest gift to Trump -- as if there were a need to make anything up about Trump.
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  29. You're right that the signs were there much sooner than last week, I grant you.
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  30. Optimism in 2023.
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  31. ​ @Random2027hgk 💯
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  32. Then attacks MICHAEL RATNER.
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  33. Any evidence would be appreciated because this display was sad.
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  34. Don't they read Orwell over there any more?
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  35. Does Dr. Gupta know what a woman is? How about a man? Does he know what a man is? Just checking.
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  36. Top quintile and other four quintiles? Worse than that. Only the top 10% are both secure and stable; the next 10% are certainly doing well, and are comfortable, now, but a serious illness or accident can derail them. They can lose everything they worked for. Look to who can self-finance a retirement, and all or most of their children's college education. That is not the top 20%; that is the top 10% at best. Those are two fundamental things that every social democracy provides; goes without saying.
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  37. FU
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  38. Voila!
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  39. Obvious
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  40. Well, every other "culture" in the developed world has universal health care and free or very low tuition university, and decent public housing for those priced out of the market by speculators. Do all of these people lack "values?" Funny, their kids are far less likely to get pregnant, use drugs, or drop out of school (like Rittenhouse did), unmarried couples and divorced couples raise children together, no one runs around heavily armed, and police don't shoot people at the drop of a hat. So . . . what was that about "values?" Where is Rittenhouse's high school diploma? Where is his FATHER?
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  41. I'll tell you something else. I have not met a polite white person in years and years. No black person EVER speaks to me with the sheer prepotence and rudeness whites consider their birthright. I recently had a medical test that resulted in many anguished weeks waiting for another appointment during COVID. The first technician, white, made an error. The second one, black, fixed it. I see this all the time. Maybe you're not noticing? Start looking around.
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  42.  @Octavus5  I don't see them as hardships. Why? Oh, the medical thing -- welcome to 2020. All's well that ends well. There is nothing "morally wrong" with black people. Unless the same thing is wrong with everyone in France, Spain, UK, Germany, etc. There isn't a black problem in America, there is a white problem. See James Baldwin. If virtue brings money, explain Uber, Facebook, Steve Jobs, Ghislaine Maxwell, Wall Street in toto, and the Veles kids. https://www.wired.com/2017/02/veles-macedonia-fake-news/ Maybe virtue used to bring money. Quaint. I liked that better, too.
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  43.  @Octavus5  Whites emphasize education?? Whites have regard for the nuclear family? WHO is this? Do you think there aren't a lot of whites like Kyle and his parents? Do you think there aren't "sister wives" all over the West? Or is that just "the media" making it up? Talk to someone who lives outside the biggest cities in Colorado, Wyoming, Utah. Do you think the "opioid" crisis isn't primarily affecting whites? Methamphetamine before it. This "agency" discourse is a big pile of excuses. NO other country is as dangerous, everywhere else people can count on medical care when they need it and affording college without massive debt. Also, in most places with comparable cultures, police are not infiltrated by gangs of every stripe, from drug lords to white supremacists. Parents don't have to live in fear about what sort of peer pressure their child might face, either. All my life, I've seen black people work hard and take home less money. I can cite real examples.
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  44.  @Octavus5  Do you have black friends? Who told you this stuff about "their community?"
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  45.  @Octavus5  I absolutely did nothing to cause any deletions. This is the new accusation I see.
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  46.  @Octavus5  At least you assume I "must be" black. I take that as a compliment. Because it IS.
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  47. Even larger problem: certain "consultants" will write any report they are commissioned to write. Their skill is in knowing their audience intimately, not in ascertaining facts.
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  48. Racist. They need an approved safety valve. Russia is perfect.
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  49. I don't think we have the evidence to draw that conclusion, but you're certainly right to raise the question. "Cui bono?" In 21st century America, it is never misplaced to ask.
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  50. If the Russians deny they put bounties on Americans' heads, that just proves they put bounties on Americans' heads. /s
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