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

@Dimera09 I suggest you read about what happened in that incident, and who provoked it and how. You might start with the article in The Guardian for a quick synopsis.
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Yes, but now I like Dickens. I didn't. Tolstoy sounds contemporary. In this particular presentation, that wss the difference.
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I've never seen or heard a more repugnant man. He makes Netanyahu look good. At least Netanyahu's motivation and personal concern is comprehensible.
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If I were her, I would have walked off the stage. I see Ferguson is part of the New Rudeness. I wouldn't permit anyone to speak to me as if I were a budding juvenile delinquent. I'm not so enthralled with 💰.
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@alexlazar4738 Exactly. I simply do not understand how these haters prosper in the Anglosphere in particular. It's really a mystery. That culture has spawned some bizarre and repugnant people and movements, as well as an excess of hysterias and moral panics.
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@myal7532 Ferguson begins by assuming that US/UK have some sort of divine right to dominate the world, when they've made an ugly mess of it. If you don't realize that his supposed analysis of the current war on Gaza is based on fake facts and emotionalism ("rehearsal for a second Holocaust"), for example, then perhaps you don't have much perspicuity. To talk about China having crippling debt is flat-out funny. Re: University of Austin . . . Bari Weiss made her career on cancelation and is not particularly competent. Utter hypocrisy. In the meantime, we shall not mention the name Julian Assange.
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It was the Red Army that inflicted nearly 80% of the casualties on the Nazis' fighting force, the Wehrmacht. The Red Army was non-Western. "Values" don't defeat Nazis. If they did, there would have been no Holocaust, nor would Sophie Scholl and her brother have been hanged.
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@Thor The Wolf I said no such thing. You need to explore why you need to put words in other people's (stranger's) mouths. It's weird.
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