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

  1.  @tonyrmathis  Bannon says a LOT of excellent things, and has some great policy proposals. Ever notice how none of those are ever implemented? Most notably his proposals for taxing massive overnight fortunes, antitrust scrutiny of Google, etc., etc., and of course regulation to protect us from Wall Street predation like we saw in 2008-09. Besides, I responded to the comment, which did NOT praise the message, but explicitly praised the messenger. I suggest you know very little about the messenger.
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  2.  @tonyrmathis  Chomsky is opposed to increased government power. His sympathies are with left-wing libertarianism and anarchism, and he will always join with people (supposedly) on the right (whatever that means -- not always clear) to support the First Amendment.
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  3.  @gaylecoleman8567  Trump DOJ, headed by Barr. You don't know how to look it up? Well, why bother, just add the right emoji. You remind me of AOC.
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  4.  @forzatuner3916  . . . um, relevance? Wrong thread, possibly?
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  5. Their questions were great, because they highlighted the fact that none of Bannon's good ideas are ever adopted. Travel bans? Certainly. Higher taxes for extreme incomes (the kind that make you and your children independently wealthy in a few years), forget about it. Consequences for Wall Street malfeasance and fraud? Ha. And so on . . . In the meantime, he needed a pardon to escape prosecution for federal wire fraud, and may still be in trouble with the state. This was the DOJ under Trump that indicted him, by the way.
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  6. They should be.
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  7. No, actually. You've never lived in Europe, I take it?
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  8. Please do see his latest interview, where he explains how Kamala will win.
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  9.  @righteousindignation8879  "Triggering" Can you talk without the most insipid cliches?
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  10.  @timw8649  You didn't read my other comments AT ALL. This is perfectly evident. I gave lengthy, substantive analyses. You just chalked me up to "pro-student," and that is as far as you went. Then you trotted out your typical cliches and two-dimensional stereotypes. If that is the best you can do, it might be time to change.
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  11.  @timw8649  The reason so many people are "offended" by these students is because of partisan politics. ("Offended" -- my goodness, how wokester of them.) The students inside the auditorium -- in contrast to the people outside, creating that obnoxious din -- were neither rude nor indoctrinated.
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  12.  @heathfairbairn2460  I analyzed each question based on the actual facts of what was said, by the student posing the question, and by how Bannon took it and answered. And I showed how all the questions showed perspicuity, and that from them, an overarching theme emerged: Bannon has some very good policy suggestions, and those go nowhere. You should think about that. But more to the point: everybody here, or very nearly so, thinks exactly like you do. One lone individual does not -- and you are apoplectic. You can't stand it. (Is that your underlying weakness for Benthamism that has you so agitated? You always count heads, as though they were money? I'll bet! The continent holds a more Kantian view.) And you are compelled to insult me, and you think I have a problem. In fact, I'm not qualified to comment! I've failed to honor your feelings!! You must not embarrass easily. Either that, or recursive thinking isn't happening over by you.
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  13.  @heathfairbairn2460  The real truth is, people are jealous -- especially of Oxford. It is Oxford that agitates them so much. It's all so much simpler than we've made it. But that's humans for you.
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  14.  @heathfairbairn2460  So . . . Do you think Project Veritas actually tells the truth, or has it been caught doctoring videos now and then?
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  15.  @righteousindignation8879  The "projection" is all on your side. It is only you who can't bear it that one lone person shows up, and inexplicably doesn't moo in unison with you. If it mattered to me, I'd make sure never to read a board like this one. I think these are symptoms of a more serious decline coming. There had better not be another depression. The West, especially US/UK, cannot stand it. Not this time.
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  16.  @righteousindignation8879  Orwell. Politics and the English Language. Today. Make time.
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  17.  @timw8649  It's unfortunate (or not?) that you have no understanding of the true nature of this exchange. Take out a sheet of paper and write down who was personally insulting to whom, from the students to those commenting -- not counting criticism, even sharp criticism, of arguments. Count only insults and aspersions cast on people.
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  18.  @timw8649  You started by attacking the students, characterizing them as rude and arrogant, instead of pointing out examples of what they said, that you consider rude. There were seven students asking questions. Show where four were rude. BTW, that was exactly what Bannon said to them: give examples of what you mean, and don't look at your notes. That was excellent, a mini-master class. Not one appeared angry or miffed by the challenge, they all realized his demand for examples was correct. Too bad you seem to have missed so much of this video. Overall, it was good.
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  19.  @timw8649  Of COURSE! What's polite is to lie about what the kids said! Polite is not to listen carefully! Polite is to silence! Polite is to wait for permission from you to speak! Polite is to moo and bray in perfect unison. Black is white, up is down. Even Stalin didn't destroy Bukharin's love letters. But those were different times. Now, it's the first thing anyone would eradicate.
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  20.  @timw8649  Thanks, I actually laughed.
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  21.  @timw8649  How impolite of you.
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  22.  @righteousindignation8879  So . . . You aren't going to read the essay. Some wiki told you something about something. Good 'nuf. Why am I not surprised?
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  23.  @danielhutchinson6604  Defense of whom? Go read Chemerinsky on free speech at the university. (I won't suggest the magnificent Nadine Strossen. She's too much of an unapologetic free speech champion, a near-zealot, and she'd made you uncomfortable.) The irony is that the students IN the conference room, doing exactly what they were supposed to do -- challenging Bannon's nonsense and doing it very well -- are being . . . DENOUNCED! Well of course. What do you expect? They are supposed to act like brutes instead, so that they are easy to criticise and, above all, don't provoke envy.
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  24.  @danielhutchinson6604  Whaaat? How crazy is this? Every one of my posts criticizes Bannon. False flag much? I know this works now. No one reads. Insult some random person of color, accuse them of White Supremacy. Don't worry. No one will look up their picture (despite no reading required). And if their picture happens to pop up, they'll briefly scratch their heads then say, "well, it . . . could . . . happen."
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  25.  @danielhutchinson6604  Chemerinsky over your head, then? Aww. Don't cry. Practice makes perfect.
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  26.  @danielhutchinson6604  Why would I be sensitive? I'm a reader.
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  27. 33:51 Accidently the truth comes out. No, Trump wouldn't be president if he didn't spout racist tropes routinely and regularly. Bannon himself claims he doesn't do that, and . . . HE will never win any office unless he starts.
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  28. What a shame. Do they know the words?
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  29. When he was mega MAGA and I criticized him, simply for objective reasons, EVERYONE went after me. 😂😂😂
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  30.  @timw8649  A PARDON means he will never stand trial on those charges in a federal court. He will never be exonerated at trial. State charges, if there is probable cause, are still possible.
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  31.  @timw8649  I didn't insult you. I characterized your previous talking points accurately. Since you know the facts, you yourself have no reason to identify with ridiculous talking points.
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  32.  @timw8649  Reread your very first post, and see how much is factually incorrect. Someone fed you this stuff. After you yourself looked into it, in the most cursory way, you clearly knew and understood the facts. It didn't take a ton of your time or copious research. So, next time don't listen to whoever fed you the talking points, and do your own thing.
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  33. Do you know the words of the anthem, or its history? I don't, hence I would not have stood.
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  34.  @BEGGARWOOD1  In America, people of character took a knee instead. Remember? Yes, I do need to know what something stands for before I support it. My late father knew Jesse Owens statistics by heart. Now do you get it? Still too obscure?
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  35. How odd that I started reading Morris Berman, The Reenchantment of the World. I'm a partisan of science --- but it is partisan.
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  36. Except that Trump was a fraud, too. A sheer con. It's always that way. Notice all the good ideas Bannon has that are never implemented. Think about why.
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  37.  @stevebrindle1724  Amen to that.
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  38. The biggest lie is that they were "rude." But then, everyone thinks they are entitled to their own truth. If all else fails, there's a big army to back it up. If you call these kids rude, then every person who claims discrimination must be right.
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  39.  @dellingson4833  Does not respind to a word I said, now does it? FIGURES.
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  40.  @dellingson4833  General Flynn would have had an ample defense fund. Not the same situation as Bannon at all.
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  41. This mooing and braying is easy. Latin and calculus is hard.
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  42. You can't give that a rest, can you?
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  43.  @fvc233  Serious claims of criminality require commensurate evidence. Or else we just tweet like Trump did on his worst days. Blech.
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  44.  @fvc233  Because Putin paid him? Must be.
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  45. "Political class" . . . I guess he assumes these are the children of that generation.
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  46. Because he never says inflammatory things, and the DOJ under Trump didn't indict him for wire fraud in a "Build The Fence" scheme.
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  47. Why are the students so poorly dressed?
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  48. But . . . but these are geniuses.
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  49. 52:47 😂😂😂
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  50. The first student brought up a contradiction in Bannon's rhetoric concerning "Judeo-Christian" values, and his response was a little too rambling and defensive. The second student did the same, highlighting actual contradictions in what Bannon is on record as having said. This is classically Socratic. The answer was very interesting, because Bannon's best ideas are NOT the ones that are implemented. Travel bans, sure. Accountability for the economic destruction wrought by Big Money? HA. Trump depends on Deutsche Bank. Bannon also used a slogan word in his answer, "triggered." Not a good sign. In general, his style of speaking is above that. The third student gave him an opportunity to comment on the demonstrators, who were the real deplorables in this picture. No problem. Bannon again gave an answer that shows that his best ideas are NOT the ones that are implemented. The student then pointed out that those who have attained political power are publicly distancing themselves from him, and asked him to comment. Again, interesting. Bannon did not mind the question. The fourth student began by taking a stand for freedom of speech, and only then asked an excellent question about Bannon's view of Trump's and the Republicans' election prospects in 2020. The fifth student first thanked him for staying over, to talk to them. Then she asked a very astute question about about political trust. Bannon appreciated the question, and was enthusiastic about answering, because it gave him a chance to talk about the things he is most passionate about. She made a counterpoint, and he tried to play folksy. He used another trope that she did not, "sorry for mansplaining." The sixth student said that the economic progess was not thanks to Trump, and that Trump did not, in general, solve the problems Bannon correctly highlights. AGAIN, Bannon's best ideas were NOT not not implemented. And Bannon DOES have lots of good ideas. The seventh student asked a very open-ended question on immigration, allowing Bannon to express himself on a matter he is passionate about, and show off some more of his good ideas. Which go nowhere. See a pattern here? So, who was ridiculous? I thought it was illuminating. Bannon is interesting to watch. Nothing ever comes of the good policies he endorses -- especially on taxes! Ha.
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