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

  1. Thus we literally need air conditioning, thus we have to continue generating energy. I think I see a vicious circle.
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  2. Sounds like Yang really wants to be Mayor of New York City.
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  3. ​@fabsmaster5309 I'm a "boomer" who will never retire. Pro-tip: do not, I repeat, do not contract cancer before Medicare. Very poor planning.
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  4.  @smirky101  It wasn't a "death threat." Basic First Amendment law. VERY basic. Hyperbole is not a true threat. Gross rudeness is, in general, protected speech. It has to have something more wrong with it to be unprotected. The First Amendment is important. Spending a few dollars on it is hardly irrational.
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  5.  @smirky101  I think for a person to be able to spare five bucks but not 50,000 bucks kinda . . . makes sense, no?
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  6. @christheghostwriter  Has anyone EVER read a Supreme Court case? A true threat cannot be vague. If it is vague, it is not a true threat. Whether or not you care is about your fee fees.
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  7.  @therationalnational  To think Blue Cross hasn't dropped its request for charges to be brought, now that they know it was simply rudeness, not a "threat." What whimps.
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  8. The REASON people say "gender" rather than "sex" is because "sex" is also an activity. I support the correct use of the terms as explained by The Rational National. But there is nothing nefarious about the misuse of the term "gender" in Chappelle's case. It IS a misuse, however. Useful explanation. Let's use terms correctly. Having said that, if there is a good reason Chappelle ought to self-censor, you have a serious burden of proof. Just saying that this or that joke endangers peoples' lives is not sufficient.
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  9. ​@cropcircle5693 It's not a true threat, but names of Supreme Court cases . . . Um, guess? Just take a WILD guess . . .
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  10. ​ @Heckatomba THANK YOU I hope the cases I cited are a good start, if I'm allowed to post that!
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  11. That is correct. Rather than checking his ID and telling him to go home, police expressed their appreciation to him. Complete insanity reigns.
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  12.  @inmate0054  He was a minor. He had no business being there with a weapon of war strung across his chest. Anyone who reasonably believed Rittenhouse was the instigator of violence had a right to DEFEND THEMSELVES AND OTHERS by trying to wrestle him down and take the weapon away, just as you would or I would, if we were trying to disarm, say, a school shooter or other mass shooter. What twisted nonsense have you been listening to?
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  13. @christheghostwriter  Re: your last paragraph I thought of that myself. I shouldn't be doing this for free. All the aftereffects of the pandemic haven't been shed yet, which is why I'm still commenting. (Needless to say, I never joined Facebook, Twitter, etc., under any name -- or this platform, before the shutdowns.) My license is in California, not Florida. Look, it's plain that you don't know the law. What does distress me is that First and Fourth Amendment rights are being undermined drastically, from all corners. Maybe you should stop and think about whether you want to be a part of that. Forget about me, lol. This is bigger than the both of us.
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  14. We are back to, "Where do babies come from, Mommy?" It will be problematic forever.
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  15. So, these are Trumptards, eh? Why do so many countries -- France, Germany, Russia, Japan -- have more vaccine hesitancy than the US does? Or didn't you know that? Maybe reviling people is not working . . . Ever think of that?
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  16. Be prepared to be shocked again: France has a higher cancer rate, proportionately twice the smoking rate, and still has a longer life expectancy than the US. French women were usually in the top three major countries for life expectancy, the other two being Japan and Sweden. This might have changed after the pandemic. Several Scandinavian and northwest European countries have higher cancer rates and longer life and health span: good food, early detection, excellent care. I guess that works?
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  17. @bluebee5266  Sadly, no. You give BCBS too much credit. Now they are wasting our tax dollars.
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  18. It's not about feelings or moral condemnation. Lucid thinking proves him wrong. His very existence depends on other people. The very language he uses to express his "ideas" depends for its existence on other people. The money that counts as money depends for its existence on other people. He is incoherent.
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  19. Bezos isn't a person. He's a country. We need a Realpolitik diplomacy with him.
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  20. Thank you for linking to these articles. Tremendous public service!
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  21. One of the victims was from a refugee family that fled Bosnia 20 years ago.
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  22.  @monkeystank5241  It's called Nixon's Southern Strategy, which became the central strategy of the contemporary Republican Party. Of course, this changed its character. The Republican Party was once a party of self-reliant, self-disciplined Yankee types, where people shunned ostentation and mistrusted huge fortunes unless they were the result of obvious ability and decades of hard word -- self-made, of course. These were farmers and shop keepers, not B-grade movie or reality show clowns. Oh the good old days . . .
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  23.  @jeffroberts6428  In Chicago, parents with difficult children have no support. A ton of social services, community mental health, etc., was cut after the 2008 crisis. They have no one to call. Parents who have called police have ended up with a dead kid. In Chicago. And a dead downstairs neighbor who opened the door for police. Look up "Police are often first responders to mental health crises, but tragedies are prompting change," in the ABA Journal this month.
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  24.  Sergio  Whether or not the rifle crossed state lines is irrelevant. Rittenhouse is not facing federal firearms charges. He is facing state charges in Wisconsin.
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  25. PERFECT A great memory is a wonderful thing.
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  26. This is the philosophy of America. You think something else is going on in the US? This is always the case. GoFundMe is our medical care.
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  27. @cruzintheraw  There are laws against harassing people, restraining order or not. Look at it in terms you would grasp: can we stalk CEOs with impunity? Or do strange people showing up at their homes get detained for questioning? Now do you see?
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  28. Exactly. It's how she got so far so fast.
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  29. Alan Greenspan was one of Rand's disciples. She is hugely influential.
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  30.  @ascent8487  Not everyone in the US owes US society very much, if anything. You bomb a lot of people's families.
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  31. @jwill9237  He made immense profits and built multigenerational wealth by breaching contracts with the most vulnerable policyholders, during the worst moments of their lives, exactly when their very lives were in the balance. The more contracts breached, the more UHC made. This is lost on anyone?
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  32.  @jedahn  Great point. And if you go in and DON'T choose an app, is that even more trouble for you? Will video of people who go in "too much" be leaked? Turned over to law enforcement?
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  33.  @komoriaimi  Even if the most charitable people are libertarians, and even if plenty of libertarians are charitable, they are still wrong.
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  34.  @stephaniewilson3955  This is a good point. As is the fact that this solution cannot be used everywhere.
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  35. @christheghostwriter  And how do you think such cases end up at the Supreme Court? Everyone along the line insisted on prosecuting them. Only the Court itself reversed.
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  36. "Legalize child labor?" After work, should the kid get a martini, a smoke, and a . . . ??
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  37.  @merceddominguez2170  That's a rumor. He's out on bond. He and his mother had to move for their safety. Rittenhouse has been seen breaking the conditions of his bond, though, so I don't know if it was raised or if he was warned by the court and is lying low now. He had the nerve to go to a bar after turning 18. He crossed state lines again to legally drink. This was against the conditions of his bond.
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  38. ​@Johnfisher12345 Not in 2020. He even gave Fauci et al. a presidential commendation. Every president cost me money and did me harm.
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  39. She must be relieved. OMB requires some work.
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  40. @jwill9237  OH GOOD. We made you say it. Doctors save lives. No insurance company ever saved a life. It honored its contracts, or made money by dishonoring them. I just showed my lawyer chops -- got you to reveal your true thoughts! This was unexpected.
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  41. @lordalpacas6464  💯 👏👏👏👏👏👏
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  42.  @fluidthought42  He's completely incoherent. His very existence depends on other people. The language he uses to speak depends for its very existence on other people. The money that counts as money could not be money were it not for other people.
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  43. Jail is for little people.
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  44. I think everyone has a right to oppose any religious orthodoxy they desire, but especially one which gravely harmed them. It is akin to being molested by clergy and opposing every manifestation of that religion. You have a right to oppose her, she has a right to oppose the Islam that she herself lived under. I don't have to agree with her. I'm sure she IS biased. This is a second-order critique about her right to a voice, not about her wisdom.
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  45.  @newbieprepper8451  "Empty threats" are protected speech.
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  46.  @Dog-999i  He wants to win.
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  47. There were 13 innocent people on death row in Illinois. Not two, not three. Not five. Illinois ended the death penalty right after that.
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  48.  @TerraPosse  The UK certainly does have a higher vaccination rate, and I didn't suggest otherwise. If Germany does, that is a new development. Japan certainly does not, nor does France. Of the major nations Russia is worst. The point is, hesitancy is not solely due to "anti-vax idiocy." Not here, not anywhere. This is one more podcaster making MONEY by fomenting divisiveness, like FOX, Rachel Maddow, etc. This video is politicizing the issue as well. I thought we had privacy in hospital rooms, by the way. I guess that's over, too.
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  49.  @TerraPosse  No, my point was that this video contributes to the political divisions which have been a true disaster here. Vaccine hesitancy has other types of sources in other places, as well as among many people in the US. So, there is more than one reason to have reluctance, and not every reason is bad.
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  50.  @2FadeMusic  Who said any such thing? We were discussing MOTIVATION for being hesitant. The medical mistakes I'm referring to include use of FDA-approved drugs that had terrible side effects for some people, and should not have been used or should have been discontinued. That does NOT mean hesitancy over the vaccine is reasonable. It means that it has zero to do with politics, Trump, anti-vaxxerama, or the people in this video. Your lack of compassion is sure to persuade people to get the shot. /s
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  51.  @datonepeach  You had some to lose?
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  52.  @alexusbratva878  The highest proportions of the vaccine hesitant are in minority communities. Do you revile them, too? Do they "owe" society something? Should they take what they believe to be significant risks, to protect you? Are they dumb for not wanting to? More important, does this little video help to persuade them? Or does it alienate them? (I could say "us," based on how my late father was perceived.)
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  53.  @NickC2001  CDC is counting vaccines administered, not who says what to whom. https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/community/health-equity/vaccine-equity.html
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  54.  Tim Kozlowski  He's a minor. Do you imagine that Chicago has social services and mental health services to assist parents in disciplining difficult children? They cut all that during the 2008 crisis. I knew girls who at 14 and 15 hung out with grown men with records. They all live in posh suburbs now. Every last one. And the one who dealt drugs in my college dorm is a Silicon Valley entrepreneur. I don't mean soft drugs, either. She liked real money.
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  55. Oh, I know! Let's go to Mars!
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  56.  @hizzlemobizzle  Alan Greenspan was one of her ardent followers. You may not know how influentual Ayn Rand was. She even influenced American psychotherapy. Several prominent Republicans and Silicon Valley billionaires follow her today.
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  57. I'll never forget how Tucker Carlson defended Kyle Rittenhouse, to the effect that "what's a young man to do" when "rioters" come "to burn your city down?" It was the worst, and it posed no problem at all for Fox.
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  58.  @GarySpace-m3c  Absolute immunity for judicial acts.
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  59.  Tim Kozlowski  Ah! What a relief! So the poor cop will be fine after all. /s
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  60.  @Hugh_I  I like that idea.
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  61.  @komoriaimi  Why? Epstein found it personally advantageous to give millions to charity. His friend Bill Gates wanted to leverage his charity for a Nobel Peace Prize, and thought Jeff could help out. You may not understand what a billion dollars is.
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  62.  @arnoldlueders7500  HE HAD HIS EMPTY HANDS UP and should have kept running, obviously.
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  63.  @NOLAjeanieUS  Not enough, LOL! 🌹
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  64.  @thevarietypacksnaxx405  As long as it's a relatively small number, and they don't inconvenience the elites, their suffering has never been an issue. Many people will jeer at them for not finding better jobs, and suggest they must not deserve better. The U.S. is a friendly kinda place. Just found out about the latest workplace shooting this evening.
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  65. I'm so sorry. How are you? This is all too much.
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  66. @christheghostwriter  LOL, are you L1? Haven't gotten to the section on true threats yet?
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  67. @christheghostwriter  Oh I see. You've never read any cases. 🤣 Of course. We see that. I was kidding about L1.
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  68.  @christheghostwriter  BTW, blocked.
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  69. @midwestlawyer  Thanks. If I name Supreme Court cases, my post is immediately removed. "Ponder that," as they say.
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  70. Gallows humor, huh? Kind of not . . . Never mind.
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  71. And . . . It's working. 😢
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  72.  @sugadagud3093  If you can relieve tension, do it. This is too horrible -- during a PANDEMIC, for chrissake.
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  73.  @y.a.994  Everyone I know who is hesitant about being vaccinated has had a life-altering medical mistake in their own lives or their immediate family's. They plan to get the first vaccine that is fully approved. In other words, I simply don't know the people in this video. They're not my friends.
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  74.  @bretbonner  Yeah, and this podcaster jumped right in, to foment hate. I unsubscribed.
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  75. Rational National has no interest in presenting a rational case. I'm not a Weinstein fan, either, but I have found that you can can generally hear more nuanced views from the foreign press. BMJ has good information. Only in the US has COVID been politicized to this degree, and this video just contributed to that. I unsubscribed.
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  76. This is, unfortunately, very likely to be the case. Israel is seeing the same numbers. I agree wholeheartedly.
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  77.  @dakkerrins6344  Banning lies is never a positive. A lot of lies are unprotected or outright criminal: defamation, instigation to violence based on false accusations, threats triggered by defamation or otherwise, perjury, etc., so obviously no "ban" is necessary, and no arbiter of truth ("Ministry of Truth?") Is necessary. The amount of trouble you can get into just by blurting out a lie to law enforcement because you were frightened or upset is already mind-boggling, when you are not even under oath when you speak to them. Why don't people THINK before they post?
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  78. @Bradley Harrison No, Sanders knows better. The Republicans don't nominate. The lie that they will exert influence somehow to advance a worse nominee is not just obviously false, but absurd.
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  79.  @hizzlemobizzle  This is a great article.
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  80. Anyone who gets away with it is a profit maximizer who gets rich. Notice how hard it is for Seder to argue against it? That's because this NUT's credo is the American credo.
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  81. I was reading Orwell and Mark Twain. Or by 14, Dostoevsky, come to think of it.
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  82. Exactly. He could be a lawyer and do something about the issues he talks about, but that would be hard. Performance is easier.
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  83.  @MrRezRising  No. It also has to be intended as a threat.
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  84.  @christheghostwriter  It will get dismissed. That's what will happen. Unless they can get her to bargain down to a misdemeanor and ding her for $10k. That might work. Has anyone here ever read a First Amendment case? Too bad naming them gets canceled! The irony . . .
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  85. @christheghostwriter  The Supreme Court has stated that First Amendment law is not a treatise on good manners. No, they really said that, in a trademark case, where a rude trademark (music group name) was illegally rejected.
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  86. @MadeOfQuestions  You've misstated the law. Statutes against cross burning that did not require the state to establish criminal intent have been struck down as violating our right to free speech and expression. Laws against swearing at police are nonexistent. Obstructing an officer in the performance of his duties is another matter.
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  87.  @jwill9237  This isn't a true threat.
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  88. @TheCaptainSlappy  Why don't you look up what a true threat sounds like, and see what convictions have been reversed, on much stronger words, directed even against a President?
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  89. @TheCaptainSlappy  There is a lovely website maintained by the Library of Congress called Constitution Annotated. You could spend some time looking around the First Amendment pages. See how strong and angry political speech can get, and still be legally protected. I can appreciate why some people disagree with the First Amendment. I support it fully.
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  90. @MrRezRising  The posters are irrelevant. They cannot make what she said illegal.
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  91. @jwill9237  No, it's not. Read some cases concerning true threats. (Quoting from them is usually censored. So much for the pragmatics of free speech.) The most natural interpretation of what she said was a warning: don't push this. You're abusing us, and people are angry. "What comes around goes around."
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  92. @TheCaptainSlappy  "I have already received my draft classification as 1-A, and I have got to report for my physical this Monday . . . I am not going. If they ever make me carry a rifle, the first man I want to get in my sights is L.B.J." Was this a true threat against President Johnson? It was a real case, and the man said it in Washington DC, in front of a small group of people. Guess the outcome.
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  93. @smirky101  We know you aren't into reading law books, but you could at least skim the thread. Happy Sunday, lol.
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  94.  @janspup6232  Right. Utter insanity. When it was uncovered, people were still not too jaded, so there was shock at there being 13 innocent people. We've had so many mass shootings since then, and so much police brutality, that I sincerely cannot be sure the same shock would be provoked by that today. I wish I weren't exaggerating.
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  95.  @Draxxuzownzu  Then sharing the story was tacky. You've never heard of small, anonymous acts of charity? That was a very strong principle once. The recipient wouldn't even know the name of their benefactor, so as not to cause them embarrassment. Oh how far we've fallen . . .
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  96. Did someone say "cancel?" What would that even mean??
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  97.  @rudiklein  No one but the victim pays for hair reconstruction, unless it's part of a recovery in a court case where the other motorist was at fault. But deciding that takes forever. Yeah, this is how it is in America.
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  98.  @mushroomsteve  ALWAYS
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  99.  @929mmr  I read Germany was picking up at-home tests for their kids weekly when school started. Your personal story is your personal story. Did you listen to the whole video?
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  100.  @bigollameo  You sound like you're on a witch hunt. Politics has devolved into tribes and cults.
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  101. 😂😂😂😂😂😂 I really did lol.
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  102. For real? Good thing I unsubscribed, though I did before seeing this. They must be kidding.
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  103. He helped free Lula.
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  104.  @TerraPosse  Every person I know who is hesitant has experienced a life-altering medical mistake. I suppose that is unusual. But I don't know those other people. I don't personally know anyone who refuses vaccinations.
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  105.  @datonepeach  Very funny. The channels you subscribe to show your neurological endowment.
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  106.  @alexusbratva878  Convinced? (Or are the three links shadowed?)
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  107.  @alexusbratva878  Who did you expect me to quote, some YouTuber or FOX News?
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  108.  @2FadeMusic  Vaccine hesitancy is higher in minority communities than in white. Who has substandard medical care more often?
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  109.  @2DRonaldo  I have some more ideas: Fast-track full FDA approval, so that the miniscule number of those seriously injured are told they are entitled to meaningful compensation under the 1986 law, rather than being told they don't count. Medicare for ALL, and universal disability insurance not tied to a job. Other countries do that. Builds confidence in institutions. Just some ideas to knock around.
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  110.  @tonywilson4713  Thank you. Perfect, really. And have you noticed how bereft we have been of reasonable, calm argument? You just see people wishing death on one another and heaping hate on one another. I knew that if we were to have a pandemic, we'd have a hard time, but I never expected . . . Make this an independent post as well.
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  111.  @jwill9237  There is no law against expressing your emotions in an immature way. "She let her emotions get the best of her" is an admission that what she said was NOT a threat.
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  112.  @sirius1696  Little kids know they don't want to have kids, ever? Little kids can be made to understand the possible risks to fertility of these drugs, and make an informed choice? Of course not.
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  113.  @amiaswolfgang  "Most" doesn't cut it. How can every child be sure? And a 16-year-old is past puberty, so that's not who we are talking about at all. Some are already having top surgery, and hence are permanently deprived of the ability to breast feed. Also, adoption wasn't the question. The right to be a birth parent someday, to have the opportunity open to them, so that they can CHOOSE, can never be denigrated. You don't deprive a child of that unless there is absolutely no option. Your faith in technology is tragic.
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  114.  @rorycallaghan5719  I learned of COLIs from you! A/k/a, dead peasant insurance. I believe this is still legal. Companies claim they use the money to pay benefits (!!)
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  115.  @rorycallaghan5719  Anyway, thank you. And you're right, there is no bottom.
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  116.  @jedahn  Well they have to keep us safe.
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  117.  @jedahn  Big /s
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  118. Of course he depends on the dollar being the global reserve currency for his "lifestyle," and the status of the dollar ultimately comes out of the barrel of a gun. But let's not quibble.
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  119.  @sharonminsuk  You both have a point, though yours has more empirical evidence for sure. Consider also that a certain well-tended wokster vocabulary is what many new media/tech corporations and their HR departments want to hear. Consider the student debt crisis. Of course students do not have the same free speech rights they had when a summer job covered a year of in-state tuition, and a couple of roommates with minimum wage jobs could pay the rent in the Mission District or Brooklyn. People used to have real freedom. And were less scared to speak their minds, for tangible reasons.
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  120. Is there a solution?
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  121. You understand. Love this post. ^10000
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  122. This is not irrational, it is sensible, but be willing to change your mind and get vaccinated sooner.
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  123.  @charmaineespeut4627  This post will almost certainly be taken down fast, but something I noticed since the start, EVERY single white person is trying to scare, shame or bully others into getting the vaccine OR refusing the vaccine. Every Black person wants to have a respectful, rational dialogue. I have found no exceptions. Never seen anything like it.
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  124.  @charmaineespeut4627  I agree. Well, they love you, so . . . Family is different. My hope is that FDA approval will come quickly. Doing the approval more quickly is justified, because they have the data, they just need to do the in-depth analysis which can be done fast. That way, too, any possible injury will be compensated through the fund set up in 1986. Right now, compensation for any injury is trivial. Of course people don't trust it. It's perfectly reasonable.
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  125.  Cali Meldron  My point is that their "charity" is always in exchange for something that these billionaires want to control, including their images and reputations. Their "charity" is not like yours or mine. When you give, you feel it. How is this a mystery?
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  126.  @stephaniewilson3955  Apartment dwellers on upper floors?
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  127. Let's take a moment to remember Kalief Browder, who committed suicide. "Kalief Browder was sent to Rikers Island when he was 16 years old, accused of stealing a backpack. Though he never stood trial or was found guilty of any crime, he spent three years at the New York City jail complex, nearly two of them in solitary confinement." (NYTimes report)
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  128.  @KA-uv8gq  You're being too kind. See how the new narrative is, "if he would have died anyway . . . "
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  129. Or maybe admired?
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  130. Depends on where. Hm?
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  131.  @mmoarchives2542  Do their employees go to a Time Out box with Wellness apps?
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  132.  @Nan-59  I'm so sorry. If you can get away for the weekend, in some way that's safe, please try. We all muscle through these things, and, having done that too many times, honestly it is not always the best idea.
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  133. I expected a bigger margin. The crazed anti-abortion crowd got 40%+? Lord.
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  134.  @03stmlax  I don't disagree. This was not a Perry Mason moment -- the Committee knew in advance exactly what her testimony would be, and what YouTubers like Rational National would say about it. It is, in short, a reality show. And they say they don't like Trump. We know what is the sincerest form of flattery . . .
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  135.  @MrSoonerCal  In the room. With the agents. Who were just with Trump. Who told her. What happened. Yes. That is correct.
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  136. Vaccine hesitancy is higher in minority communities than in white, and you are focusing on this guy instead, who repels most people. And you push hate at everyone not yet vaccinated. Nice going. You thought this through. /s
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  137. Are type A sociopaths hugely likely to get rich in Canada? Well, then, you don't reward them.
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  138. Brilliant!
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  139. Of course it is not video games, especially not in the Crumbley case. But Grand Theft Auto, as opposed to guitar or keyboards, is part of the culture, and it's alienating. The time you spend on video games you don't spend on garage bands.
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  140. You're too kind.
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  141. Weiss made her name by attacking pro-Palestinian profs as anti-Semitic.
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  142.  @Nightriser271828  Obviously. A great point. It is so annoying when you hear bougie types unable to come up with any lucid argument, and instead say, "well that's not very nice." He likes not being nice.
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  143.  @hizzlemobizzle  This could be a very good experience. He needs to think it through carefully. It used to be that anyone who qualified could go to university in most European countries tuition-free, so that is huge. I lived in France for five years in the 1980s, and can tell you, two or three years to perfect the language is essential, and much more valuable than just one year (it takes a year to get your bearings), but more than three becomes a real problem UNLESS you get a job with an American company. My family had strong ties to France, a lot of family friends lived there, my parents were born in Europe as well, and all in all, I lost my assimilation to American society in that length of time. That was a mixed bag, to say the least. In short, I wouldn't change it for the world, but I advise people not to stay more than two or three years without reconnecting to the US in a meaningful way. It gets hard if you stay a long time and then try to come back. You change too much. I have to retire in Europe. I cannot make it here as an elderly person anymore. I'm a foreigner where I was born.
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  144. The POINT was supposed to be about NSA surveillance. Everyone got led down the garden path? Tucker's own fault, but that's not relevant. I guess Snowden did what he did for . . . absolutely nothing.
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  145.  @MsNickie1001  This was a ridiculous take on the incident, a mere side issue to laugh about, not to focus on. It's not even enough to discredit Carlson's claim of being illegally unmasked. That's what matters. Even convicted criminals are supposed to have civil rights. THAT is the real story.
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  146.  @scottmyers10  Thank you for informing us of the scope and limits of your objectivity.
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  147.  @scottmyers10  I have no interest in reading this. If it were up to me, I would have removed Tucker when he praised an underage vigilante with a high-powered weapon. Tucker is not entitled to a show or an audience. Tucker is entitled to constitutional rights. Your name-calling is puerile.
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  148.  @scottmyers10  Even convicted criminals are entitled to constitutional rights. That is a FACT.
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  149.  @scottmyers10  Blocked, of course. Time waster.
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  150. Greenwald just came out with "Securing Democracy: My Fight for Press Freedom and Justice in Bolsonaro's Brazil." You're going to ignore that? BRICS lives matter, too.
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  151.  @GuerillaBunny  Now THIS is interesting information. No surprise.
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  152. This is the diversion everyone is going to laugh about, while ignoring the surveillance state encroachment? That was the issue.
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  153. Adult time out? LOL
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  154.  @Torthrodhel  Of course it's completely incorrect.
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  155.  @dakkerrins6344  Your comment is extra-ironic. You didn't give truth much thought, obviously.
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  156.  @Bruintjebeer6  We agree.
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  157. If you feel sick from technology, there is an app for that.
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  158.  @musicwelikemang  DNC needs a new story line.
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  159. @Bradley Harrison And BIDEN is doing this because . . . ? It does not make sense to speak of one group influencing another, when the latter can choose not to permit itself to be influenced. Did the Republicans allow themselves to be influenced by pleas to not nominate anyone to fill Justice Ginsburg's seat on the Supreme Court, even though early voting had begun? (Besides all that, has anyone in Washington seriously asserted that Tanden is too progressive? Ha ha.) What is the rea$on to tout biparti$an$hip now? Who in the world i$ pu$hing it??
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  160. I suspected this all along.
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  161. @counselthyself It's nuanced. Read the article. It's excellent. The PROBLEM is, we are not being properly informed about breakthrough cases. They are not trivial.
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  162. @counselthyself This was valuable as well. Thanks for the link.
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  163. Great job on this!! Uplifting.
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  164. @elisedemerveilles3065  It was not a true threat. It was protected political speech. Blue Cross Blue Shield is at fault, for not dropping charges after she was investigated and determined to be totally innocuous. Health insurers costing us money yet again. What a surprise. They just can't get enough.
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  165.  @Mantose262  Because the surveillance state has existed under every administration since 9/11?
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  166.  @Mantose262  Okay. So let me see if I understand. Creepy liars and various partisan hacks shouldn't have constitutional rights. You feel safe if that becomes the principle? I'd have no problem yanking Tucker's show or boycotting his principal sponsors, because he isn't entitled to have those things, but I draw the line at spying, unmasking, etc. Laws apply to everyone. Supposedly.
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  167.  @Mantose262  The American citizens who foreign nationals talk to can be placed under surveillance, of course. They are not supposed to be unmasked. Are you living in the States? Are you old enough to remember pre-9/11?
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  168.  @Mantose262  "Unmasked" and going public are not the same thing. To me, this is simple: Suppose Tucker is simply lying. Then that's the story. I, for one, would not be sorry to see him go. Nor would I be shocked that Tucker is lying. But suppose he is telling the truth: he was unjustifiably unmasked, and communucations that should not have been read by certain parties were being read and leaked -- all of which was unjustified, or unauthorized, or both. Is this fine, because Tucker?
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  169. Actually, the vaccination release form that every person who goes in to be vaccinated is given tells you that after reading it, you can refuse vaccination and there will be no change in the healthcare you are entitled to. It says so on the form. Look it up. Or, if you are vaccinated, you must have the form.
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  170.  @gsherlock  Once the vaccines are fully approved, we can discuss this. You can't mandate an EUA drug!
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  171.  @gsherlock  This podcaster is egging you on. Start seeing through the game.
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  172. The consent and release from liability form you sign to get vaccinated states that you have a right to refuse vaccination and there will be no change in the care you receive. You're vaccinated, so you must have that form.
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  173. 5:00 ABSOLUTELY RIGHT In one flat minute, says it ALL. What will it take?
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  174.  @impliedlines711  You clearly know nothing about Victor Hugo!
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  175.  @impliedlines711  Why would I bother? I have better things to read. The preface to Murakami's Wind/Pinball is great.
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  176.  @impliedlines711  You read it and don't know? The free spirit that he was, the dreamlike coincidences, the intense intuition, the way he chose to live.
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  177.  @impliedlines711  Oh. That's personal.
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  178.  @impliedlines711  You implicitly asked why I didn't read the entire thread before commenting. I answered that question. Tell me why in this instance that was wrong of me.
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  179.  @impliedlines711  The thread begins with the concept of life-changing literature.
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  180.  @impliedlines711  Not at all. I commented on your very first post about Victor Hugo, which was wrong. That simple.
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  181.  @impliedlines711  Interesting. I found Paint It Black unreadable. Had to put it down. Well. Now you know why I didn't read the thread before posting.
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  182.  @impliedlines711  Rand isn't even a real writer as far as I can see. She could shape up a screenplay. Maybe. Well, she certainly was hired to do so enough times.
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  183.  @impliedlines711  My motivations were to defend Hugo from the anhistorical and anachronistic charge of "conservatism," toward someone who risked his life to gain a grant of asylum in Belgium for fleeing Communards who had escaped massacre. Hugo was the most prominent opponent of the death penalty of his time, or any time. We still have a death penalty. If only we had "conservatives" like that.
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  184.  @impliedlines711  BTW, your replies are delayed from appearing, at least to me. Gotta love tech. We never know where the glitch, or the surveillance, might be. Sort of like the panopticon principle.
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  185.  @impliedlines711  Oh yeah, Fitch. I had to put down White Oleander, too. Overwritten to the point of parody. I was dumbfounded. Is she a friend of yours?
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  186.  @impliedlines711  Okay. To keep it basic: someone who defended the Communards, even if he wasn't a supporter of the Commune from its inception, is not conservative. Imagine a person who has very serious misgivings about the BPP but provides safehouses and legal representation for them after Fred Hampton and Mark Clark are assassinated. That's anachronistic as well, but the analogy is sound. Suppose, also, that person blurted out something racially insensitive sometimes. Or, suppose someone who hid Jews from Nazis and forged papers for them once said "y*d." Not a good look on twitter, true.
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  187.  @impliedlines711  I remember a talk I heard in Minnesota from a retired judge, quite elderly, who was one of the staunchest advocates of a woman's right to choose, and who actually played a major role in abortion becoming legalized. He still used the word "gal."
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  188.  @impliedlines711  I didn't say you said he was a monster, nor that I think he should be lionized. Oh well, we're both tired I guess.
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  189.  @impliedlines711  I agree that anthropology was essentially nonexistent at the time. I'd have to see a sample of Hugo's writings, not just a comment here or there, in the original, to judge. For example, an attorney will argue by conceding a point he knows he cannot win. So, even a death penalty opponent may argue that if we believe death should only apply to the worst of the worst (typical trope in such cases), that precludes people who committed their crimes as minors, or who were mentally disabled at the time of the crime, or psychotic at the time of execution, etc. You concede what you think you can't win. The lawyer doesn't dare bring up blanket opposition to the death penalty, or he risks limiting its application in the here and now.
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  190.  @impliedlines711  "People grow and improve." He wasn't on a self-actualization quest or journey. He risked his life.
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  191.  @impliedlines711  Actually, you'd be a good person to ask: I'm trying to decide whether to read DeLillo's Underworld. What did you think of it?
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  192.  @impliedlines711  I got a kick out of Cosmopolis. Short, a fast read. Offended a lot of people, LOL. It didn't get good reviews but I loved it. More appreciated abroad, I think.
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  193. What does Rittenhouse have to do with this? Yikes.
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  194. 5:20 In the US, that would slash the marriage rate. Believe it.
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  195. Describes 70% of each, easily.
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  196. Why do you think "who owns the twitterverse" is the point? Surveillance is the point. Even criminals are supposed to have civil rights.
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  197.  @Laurencita  That hasn't been established. That's assuming he's doing what he usually does. But suppose he is lying. Then THAT is the story, not that he jeered at someone for what he himself is guilty of. Way to miss the point.
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  198. If an American journalist seeks to interview Putin, or any foreign leader like Putin, it is perfectly normal to listen to those communications, as long as a noncitizen is on one end of them. It is NOT normal to unmask the American journalist. Aren't you curious whether this happened? Tucker saying something ridiculous is not news. (Tucker actually trying to get a scoop is news, but I digress.) Even convicted criminals (are supposed to) have rights.
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  199. I love you. No, I mean it. :)
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  200. The fact that people with medical bills (and friends whose collective net worth is in the billions) need to start a GoFundMe page -- and hence give up their right to PRIVACY of the gist of their medical treatment -- is not a story in your book? Or is it the math that's challenging? BTW, if you or your loved ones needed brain surgery, would you prefer that the whole story not be circulated on the Internet -- assuming, of course, you could afford having the choice to keep it to yourselves? Thought so.
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  201. I see him as you do. But his fans think all polls are fraudulent and manipulative (anything that doesn't flatter them is fraudulent and manipulative). So it's fair to manipulate right back.
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  202. "Pre-crime??" Oh this should be fun.
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  203. ​ @newbieprepper8451 Not a true threat. Brandenburg v. Ohio. RAV v. City of St Paul. If we don't defend our rights, we will lose them.
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  204. ​ @newbieprepper8451 No she won't.
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  205.  @MrRezRising  No Supreme Court case name has swear words in it that I know of.
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  206.  @MrRezRising  Blocked for lying.
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  207. @christheghostwriter  Yes I do. I'm a civil rights lawyer. The First Amendment is one of my specialties. The judge I worked for is quoted for her First Amendment opinions in the very finest legal literature. Have. You. Ever. Read. A. Case? Or a book? How about a book? Let' go for book.
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  208. @christheghostwriter  If I do name cases that are on point, the post will not appear. You don't find THAT dusturbing?
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  209. @markruhland3035  The person you are addressing (1) does not know First Amendment law; and (2) is remarkably persuasive. I admit I'm impressed.
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  210. @christheghostwriter  And how do YOU think these cases got to the Supreme Court? Everyone along the line signed off on prosecuting them. You are outstanding at sounding like you know something. I'm sure you could persuade many people that you're the expert, not I. This is nothing new. Plato's Gorgias comes to mind.
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  211.  @newbieprepper8451  This is what the snowflakes did to us. I knew this nonsense could only go south.
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  212.  @MadeOfQuestions  Wikipedia is not a treatise on contemporary First Amendment law. 🤣
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  213. This.
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  214. This is hearsay. She witnessed none of this. She claims she was told every one of these "bombshells." The rebuttal to characterizing this as hearsay is nonsense. This is information about WHO has firsthand knowledge, and THUS should be subpoenaed to testify.
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  215. If any channel transmits practically all of the content of a channel that was properly banned for cause, what is the argument against banning that channel, too? So the content can stay up if someone on it pretends to "disapprove?" Oh brother! Think this through.
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  216. Monopolies that provide essential communucations should not have the power of prior restraint. Removing material that violates terms of service is fine. Removing people is a different matter. There has to be a compelling reason. For example, if just about everything they ever post is a TOS violation, to the point where monitoring is futile, that may be compelling. See Nadine Strossen on hate speech.
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  217. If it were up to me, I'd ban first-person shooter video games for minors, and put warnings on it for everyone else. It's not up to me.
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  218. ​ @fabsmaster5309 And had it been up to me, I would have never been born. Thanks for asking.
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  219. If you advocate banning speech, you have to be more specific.
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  220.  @NumeroSystem  That's not specific enough. Read Strossen on hate speech. Read Chemerinsky. I don't agree with every word, but no one who doesn't read them will have a fully informed view of the subject. Your little formulation could end up banning Richard Wolff. It's not like that didn't happen -- during McCarthy.
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  221.  @NumeroSystem  Absolutely: anyone who advocates an overthrow of the capitalist system, by whatever means prove to be necessary. Of course, it is names of assassinated people who come to mind first.
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  222.  @NumeroSystem  If you actually care, read Nadine Strossen and Erwin Chemerinsky. Very fast, entertaining reads. Do that before advocating for gutting the First Amendment.
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  223.  @NumeroSystem  Let me ask you instead: should works by and about Malcolm X be banned? Fred Hampton? Angela Davis? Lenin, Mao, Castro, Che?
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  224.  @NumeroSystem  So, what would you do with it? Denounce it and articulate reasons for that, or remove it from a university campus, and expel any students and fire faculty who smuggle it back in? By what right the latter?
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  225.  @NumeroSystem  That's no longer a university. The unrepentant maoist Alain Badiou was head of the philosophy department at ENS, one of the most prestigious chairs in philosophy in the world. He didn't get along with his boss. His work merited it, so he got the chair. I've known for a long time that free speech means multilingualism. I'm not joking, either. What if works of the past inspire people of the present? (Or has debt and the threat of homelessness taken care of that risk?)
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  226.  @NumeroSystem  Then we're good.
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  227.  @whysocurious7366  If you have a risk of this, you need high-tech surveillance cameras that save automatically to a secure server outside of your home. You can always be overcome by firepower.
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  228. How many songs have you played on guitar?
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  229. Well? Just kidding.
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  230. ​ @Crawling-Chaos-2024 true
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  231. Imagine being afraid of Sam Seder.
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  232. "Conspiracy theories as a coping mechanism" -- so, people need to cope with the defeat of insane clown president? We've fallen to this?
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  233.  @Draxxuzownzu  I did, too.
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  234.  @Draxxuzownzu  Okay. You're right about the "culture" part, or lack thereof.
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  235.  @Draxxuzownzu  I think it was tacky to share the information about the GoFundMe campaign, then. Exactly. Though of course his family would rather have more money. You don't get the picture? Reread my post, past the first line if possible.
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  236.  @GotAbductedOnce  Vaccine hesitancy is higher in Germany, France, Japan, and Russia, listed from lowest hesitancy (about like ours, and possibly turning around due to Delta variant) to highest hesitancy (Russia and Japan have shockingly low rates of vaccination). What's that about? I unsubscribed. I'm not going to contribute to anyone who makes his living like this guy does, by fomenting more divisiveness during a PANDEMIC. This was vile.
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  237.  @GotAbductedOnce  That is never strictly true for any non-FDA approved medicine. It is only when the in-depth multivariate statistical analysis is complete -- which can and should be fast tracked -- will we have a clear picture of risks and benefits to each demographic. You would not be hesitant to vaccinate a 17-year-old son with an mRNA vaccine, or a daughter with J&J? Then you don't have the facts as they appear at present.
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  238.  @GotAbductedOnce  Every hesitant person I know has been the victim of a life-altering medical mistake. But then, I don't know the people in this video, or anyone like them. Still, I won't follow the suggestion to hate on them.
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  239.  @GotAbductedOnce  The way he heaped scorn on these people, then threw in the emotional pull about his kid, was deliberately calculated to get this effect, not to persuade anyone.
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  240.  @GotAbductedOnce  Compensation for the injured, under the comprehensive program in place for FDA approved vaccines since 1986. It may not matter to you. Full approval sheds much more light on costs and benefits by demographic, and it scrutinizes closely the data you just accept from MSM. (It was Israel that alerted us to myocarditis and endocarditis in young men. Our media reported it as a fluke.) Who do you think the disproportionately unvaccinated are? People like this guy? No. Minorities.
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  241.  @GotAbductedOnce  https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/community/health-equity/vaccine-equity.html
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  242.  @GotAbductedOnce  I support fast track approval. We have the data, we have to do the multivariate analysis. That doesn't have to take six months.
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  243. Great idea! Before puberty, I totally agree. After puberty, depends on the sport. Purely case by case. If contact sports might present a risk, why would tennis? Vollyball? I mean come on.
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  244.  @austinhernandez2716  In some sports, there might be a greater risk of injury, or a practical impossibility, for cis girls to compete with trans girls. But that is a purely empirical question. There is no reason to make a blanket rule against it. Just following your proposed rule all through school would probably take care of it. Anyway, I'm not a fan of most contact sports. High school football for developing brains never made any sense to me, for anybody.
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  245. Ben Shapiro has a Harvard law degree, and this is what he does with it. Doesn't this say it all? There used to be standards for leaders. There used to be professional pride in Ivy League law grads. But now, it's all about the money. The more you get for the less you do, the better a profit maximizer you are. OF COURSE Shapiro supports Cruz's self-indulgence. Right up his alley.
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  246. Let's watch and see whether it increases TRN views. That will tell you why it's here.
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  247. Insured people in America can have a bill that large. A deductible of, say, $5000, plus roughly 80% of all physicians' fees, and 80 to 90% of hospital expenses, with only the ER covered at 100% once the deductible is met -- a million dollar bill can mean over $60,000 out of pocket. (Chances are, he has good insurance.) You didn't know? Insured people go bankrupt on account of extraordinary medical bills all the time. In the meantime, damage claims (which cover much more than just the costs of therapy and disability) are tied up in court for years.
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  248. Did you think his whole bill for BRAIN surgery was in the tens of thousands? A simple mastectomy, no reconstruction, is vastly more. How did you think Americans live? LOL
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  249.  @rudiklein  No. The surgeon's fee for brain surgery is a remarkably small percentage of the total cost. Everything else is separate, including emergency room, operating room, intensive care, imaging, in-patient physical therapy and rehabilitation, etc. There is no insurance that covers absolutely everything. If his total bill is between half a million and a million, $60k out of pocket is not extraordinary. And if he was earning a lot before the accident, he cannot qualify for assistance or even a 0% interest payment plan (moderate income and pediatric cases get 0% plans routinely). In the future, if he is unable to work and earn what he once did, he will qualify for some sort of assistance (reduced or waived copay and 0% payment plans).
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  250.  @rudiklein  FIRE (finance, insurance, real estate) must be served. Capital formation, yo. :)
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  251. Even hypocrites are supposed to have civil rights. Even criminals are. Or were. The money isn't the point.
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  252. ​ @mushroomsteve  They immediately r-mov- the names of Supreme Court cases. Not links, names. That's the world we live in!
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  253. ​ @mushroomsteve You at least got to point that out.
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  254. ​ @mushroomsteve  Names of SCOTUS cases re A1 are __________. Yeah. THAT bad.
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  255. ​ @mushroomsteve I can't even s a y t. Ha t m u ch.
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  256.  @mushroomsteve  Try naming a case. Just try.
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  257. The people who get rich are the ones who figure out how to offload risk on others while retaining rewards for themselves. This guy must never have heard of financial engineering. That is a major now.
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  258. Tucker is a reprehensible newscaster whom I would have fired when he endorsed teenaged vigilantism. That alone. But this time, on this issue, he's right. Do you not see that? Or do you not know the background? What he said was that surveillance state overreach should be the focus. This is true, this time.
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  259. I agree, even though I'm for vaccination. Moreover, there is no access to meaningful compensation for vaccination injury prior to full FDA approval. I unsubscribed because this podcaster is egging on the haters. His irrational appeal concerning his child really took the cake -- after heaping scorn on others, as if that could encourage more vaccination.
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  260. It would cut the kill budget.
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  261. Well, with the latest variant, mild breakthrough infections are possible. You may find you need to go into a crowded area. I picked up a couple of test kits, containing four tests in all -- and was out over $50 dollars with the tax. I recently had cold symptoms, no fever, went to the CDC website and based on the advice I got there, I stayed in for three days then took one of my at-home tests, to be safe. Not to infect others, basically. I would have preferred not to feel as though I were under house arrest for three days for a mild cold. I cannot afford three tests. If I could have tested more times, I would have stayed in one day, not three.
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  262.  @coreyleath4662  I don't know if they had to prepare for this first. Believe me, if it turns out you're right, I agree 100%. Let's see all the facts.
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  263. Vaccine hesitancy is higher in Germany, France, Japan, and Russia, listed from lowest hesitancy to highest. What's that about? You're lining the pockets of people who want to turn you against other people in your own country. That's showing your superior brainpower. /s I unsubscribed. I'm not going to contribute to anyone who makes his living like this guy does. This was vile.
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  264. He may be right. Also, I no longer believe that either the violence following behind the BLM demonstrators all last year, or the January 6th mob, were without false flag provocateurs. I think that is sadly naive.
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  265. You're sure he can work again?
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  266.  @eetdarichmarx7423  I don't either. But if he needed brain surgery, anything from full recovery to lifelong disability are possible. :/ It's not unusual not to know for a solid year how well you'll recover. Some people are in bad shape, and then make progress for years, to the point where only their neurologists can detect their issues. He's really young, so . . . We can hope.
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  267. Monopolies that provide essential communications should not have the power of prior restraint. Removing material that clearly violates terms of service is fine. Removing people is a different matter. There has to be a compelling reason. If any channel transmits practically all of the content of a channel that was properly banned for cause, what is the argument against banning that channel, too? So the content can stay up if someone on it pretends to "disapprove" of it? Oh brother! Think this through.
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  268. WAIT. Does someone believe the United States entered WWII to end the Holocaust?? Emily's remark was highly ambiguous on that point.
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  269.  @smilo_don  EXACTLY
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  270. Lord, these comments are great. This show has some brilliant viewers.
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  271.  @JoJo-vg8dz  Baldwin said it best: he called them "people who think they're white," a mentality, socially constructed, and adopted, not predestined. Baldwin never found any in Europe right after WWII. There were horrible racists there, and even some who still believed in Hitler, but there were no "white" people. Read Toni Morrison, On the Backs of Blacks. That explains it perfectly. And read Ecclesiastes 9: 11. That's the place to start.
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  272.  @JoJo-vg8dz  Do black "racists" have social benefits for being racists? Or is it inherent in the system that only white racism can count on being rewarded? Have you ever heard of the book called The Torture Machine? You should read the first few chapters, at least.
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  273.  @mwfmtnman  But the concept of "race" is much newer. You really don't see it before the 17th century. The ancient Greeks didn't have it. Neither did Medieval Europe. The first conquistadores hurried up to baptize the most "beautiful" Aztec women in order to marry them. Homer mentions the Kush, calls them "Ethiopian" (they were from modern day Sudan), and considers them comparable to Greeks.
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  274.  @JoJo-vg8dz  You aren't interested in reading anything. That's your right as an American.
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  275.  @JoJo-vg8dz  Do blacks live under a system where being prejudiced against whites will be materially rewarded? Do you think whites who are prejudiced against blacks are ever rewarded for that prejudice? Are you an open minded observer at all?
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  276.  @corpsefoot758  Well, I agree with your second point anyway. The first is too categoric. There certainly was a time when Critical Race Theory was American history. But you're right: "was"
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  277. Think of all the young black men who are not shot during a police encounter. So glad to hear there's no problem, then. Without comparing players to nonplayers, no generalization is possible, much less a claim that video games cause violence. But you don't know whether they do create a small risk, by comparison to not playing them, either.
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  278. If a bunch of people die in infancy, and a bunch more after age 70, but not many in between, you still get a mean life expectancy around 45 or 50.
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  279. Wow, did Mr. Nice Canadian unleash a lovely little hatefest here. These are the worst comments I've seen anywhere.
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  280. I heard Niall Ferguson extolling "the West" on Lex Fridmen's show, and Lex, quite astutely, asked him whether he includes the great Russian writers in "Western" civilization. Do I have to tell you Ferguson's answer? (It was "yes.") What a tool. Alternative facts does not begin to describe it. And of course HE tried to smear ideological opponents as a tactic when he was a student and an academic. No one should be surprised, ever.
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  281. COVID has disproportionately struck minorities.
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  282. Mean (or average) is informative only when you have a normal distribution. Otherwise, it's almost always misleading.
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  283.  @TerraPosse  You are very lucky. I know people with no children due to a medical mistake. I know people who changed adult diapers for years due to a medical mistake. How did you manage? I'd prefer your experience!
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  284.  @TerraPosse  That, my friend, explains A LOT.
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  285.  @alexusbratva878  I suggest you look it up. https://www.kff.org/coronavirus-covid-19/issue-brief/latest-data-on-covid-19-vaccinations-race-ethnicity/ https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/community/health-equity/vaccine-equity.html https://blockclubchicago.org/2021/04/20/black-south-siders-not-getting-vaccinated-against-covid-as-much-and-are-getting-sick-and-dying-more-lightfoot-says/ How could you not know? That's weird.
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  286.  @LongToad  Most vaccine hesitant people are minorities. Hence, vaccine hesitancy is very slighly higher among Democratic voters than Republican voters. So much for Rational National's truthiness.
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  287.  @NickC2001  I was referring to actual vaccinations, not attitude surveys, or self-reporting. The lower rates of vaccination among minorities, and the relative low number of Republicans compared with Democrats and Independents, has been enough to skew the totals, just as I said. Krystal Ball reported on it this week. You can post links, but you didn't read them.
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  288.  @2DRonaldo  People need to make their own decisions, without being belittled, and to be respected for their lived experience. But thanks anyway. P. S. You are not a doctor or a mathematician, and certainly not a psychologist in the true sense of the word. I can tell.
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  289.  @2DRonaldo  Goad Goad Goad Goad Goad Goad Goad Ridicule . . . Browbeat . . . Bully . . . Jeer "Oh. . . " "Something went wrong? Huh. Too bad for you, I'm fine. . . . Loser!" We know the drill.
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  290.  @2DRonaldo  For every person I know who lives alone, when they told me they were going to get vaccinated, I offered to come with them. How about you?
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  291.  @buffy4500  More politicized, absolutely, but have you been watching French news in the original? But everything is going to have that special viciousness, here. I haven't checked the weekly numbers, but last time I did, Germany had about the same number of fully vaccinated as the US, France had fewer, and Russia far fewer. Japan has very few. Only UK embraced it, but Oxford developed their vaccine. Serbia had an impressive rollout, with a wide choice (three non-mRNA and one mRNA vaccine, see the PBS report on that), but it seems to have stalled. I really did look this up.
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  292.  @buffy4500  In France, 40% of those in the medical field, primarily nurses but also doctors and others, have not yet been vaccinated. https://youtu.be/uUOtKz1ml3I
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  293.  @Sam-yf9up  No. I think people have more or less well-founded -- as well as unfounded -- concerns, which are not being addressed. Instead, we have quite a bit of bullying. Bullying always builds confidence.
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  294.  @Sam-yf9up  Anyone who doesn't respond properly when bullied is a real idiot. /s
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  295.  @Sam-yf9up  I can't figure out what your point is. Ranting is beneficial to the ranter and the rantee. It's been shown to be true.
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  296.  @Sam-yf9up  I don't care about clowns. They provide zero guidance on what anyone should or shouldn't do. I don't take a drug because some clown will or won't. Zero influence.
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  297.  @Sam-yf9up  Blocked, BTW
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  298.  @smita7776  I did not cite any countries where there is a vaccine shortage. I thought of that. I know America is a rich country.
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  299.  @b.a.r.3687  Who? What are you talking about? Israel is almost exclusively using Pfizer. Pfft. You care about accuracy in health information (not).
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  300.  @buffy4500  Oh please. Vaccination is measured in PERCENT of eligible population.
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  301.  @cypriano8763  I posted the official figures. Maybe POC "don't count" in your worldview? Does it disrupt the hate narrative? Well that's inconvenient isn't it?
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  302.  @cypriano8763  https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/community/health-equity/vaccine-equity.html
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  303.  @ajpend  During the time when delta variant is becoming dominant, it's likely to harm others. Vaccinated, asymptomatic carriers are spreading it, this time to younger people and children. Science. By the way, flu vaccines do exactly the same thing. Vaccinated people might get a mild sniffle, and be contagious to everyone who isn't vaccinated.
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  304.  @leif5046  I like this summary. Very nicely argued. The absence of any sign that the person is aware of Occam's Razor is also a strong indication of a conspiracy theory. If a simple explanation clearly fails to account for all the relevant facts, a much more elaborate one won't, either. Like pre-Copernican astronomy!
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  305.  @gingerpetrini6205  (1) Everything I've said is evidence based. (2) I have offered to accompany people to their COVID vaccination and to check in on them. (Have you?) (3) Painting the hesitant as reprobates and complete idiots will NOT reassure them. It is simple browbeating, and causes more mistrust. (4) You sound like a grammar school bully. (5) Browbeating does not present facts. People should not let anyone like you persuade them not to get vaccinated. People like you, who refuse to have a real discussion and try to silence others, should have zero influence on anyone's medical decisions, pro or con.
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  306.  @gingerpetrini6205  Wait. How did your name on my notifications feed appear as Kris, but here you are GINGER?
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  307.  @gingerpetrini6205  Like I said, no good can come from talking to you. Can't argue there.
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  308.  @e-spy  Yeah, I did, too.
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  309. Monopolies that provide essential communications should not have the power of prior restraint. Removing material that violates terms of service is fine. Removing people is a different matter. There has to be a compelling reason. For example, if just about everything they ever post is a TOS violation, to the point where monitoring has been shown to be futile, and much of the material is not protected by the First Amendment, that may be compelling. See Nadine Strossen on hate speech. If any channel transmits practically all of the content of a channel that was properly banned for cause, what is the argument against banning that channel, too? So the content can stay up if someone on it pretends to "disapprove?" Oh brother! Think this through.
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  310. You have NO IDEA how lucky you are not to be in the US.
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  311. The entire world does not play video games.
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  312.  @hunger4wonder  Not only that, but there are still people who know "its" is possessive and "it's" is a contraction of "it is" (or "it has"). Crazy.
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  313. Actually, the vaccination release form that every person who goes in to be vaccinated is given tells you that after reading it, you can refuse vaccination and there will be no change in the healthcare you are entitled to. It says so on the form. Look it up. Or, if you're vaccinated, you got the form.
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  314. And that's legal.
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  315. They know what not yet fully approved means. Once it is, we will all have compensation for any injuries under the 1986 law. That will tip the balance for the vast majority of rational people.
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  316. Remember Geffen's tweet about weathering COVID lockdown on his luxury yacht? "Oops!"
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  317.  @DarkEmpress925  You are correct. The law is clear. This was not a true threat. Much, much stronger and more specific language has been held to be protected speech. Why is there now a small handful of people who want to erode our most basic civil rights?
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  318. @jwill9237  Not a true threat that can be criminalized consistent with our Bill of Rights. As you know by now.
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  319.  @jwill9237  Blocked from my notifications for wasting my time. 😂
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  320. Oh Ben, Ben, this is what you did with your Harvard Law degree. Why don't you represent some homeschoolers or something?
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  321. There is a free-speech crisis at the university. Start with Norman Finkelstein. Supporters of the Palestinians, even those opposed to BDS, have been systematically thrown out of jobs. Don't let these Koch-sters convince you to take your eye off the ball. When students graduate with the kind of DEBT that they do, you better believe there is a free-speech crisis, and it runs deep. Why do you think "Business" has been the single most common major for at least three decades? Unless it leads to CPA, it's usually worth little except to signal docility to corporate employers.
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  322. Thank you.
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  323. No non-FDA approved medicine has ever been forced on minors, who usually cannot choose for themselves. I hope older teens will be allowed to choose. In some states, they can't.
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  324.  @hizzlemobizzle  Very well stated. ^^^^^^^
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  325. @Scoobystyle  Thank you 🙏
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  326. @Scoobystyle  I appreciate why BCBS reported her, and why they wanted police to check it out. That's reasonable. But now that they KNOW she isn't a threat, why are they still pressing charges? It's a civil matter: drop her from coverage, sue her for intentional infliction of emotional distress of your customer service rep, and leave the criminal justice aparratus out of it. That is the most they could do. But instead . . . this?? Wow, just wow. "Merry Christmas."
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  327. Are you this easily duped?
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  328.  Liz Skelton  Nothing she said can lead to prison for anyone. The substance of her testimony was not firsthand knowledge of what Trump did, but pointed to WHO actually was there and has firsthand knowledge of Trump's actions on 1/6, and needs to be subpoened to testify by Congress -- or a grand jury, if they are going to seriously consider indictments. I've never seen legal news reported worse than it is now. This entire video was nonsense. Pure grift. As a Canadian, this guy doesn't even take the time to get the most basic facts about the US legal system straight.
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  329. The burden of proving that is on you.
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  330. But . . . but . . . It has WELLNESS apps! Are you against wellness? /s
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  331. Actually, the vaccination release form tells you that after reading it, you can refuse vaccination and there will be no change in the healthcare you are entitled to. It says so on the form. Look it up.
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  332. You're pushing this lurid garbage, too? This is not scientific information, this is propaganda. I'm speechless, too. And I am a vaccine proponent. This is NOT how you address the hesitant. Shameful! Unsubscribed.
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  333. But Oppenheimer used it, after the first atom bombs were detonated.
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  334.  @carolr4871  I had honestly thought everyone had heard it. I'm sorry.
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  335. Prove it happened.
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  336.  @kingboobs20  Contempt of court is punished inordinately harshly. But contempt of court is NEVER invoked "just for saying . . . ," etc.
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  337. So, these are Trumptards, eh? Why do so many countries -- France, Germany, Russia, Japan -- have more vaccine hesitancy than the US does? Why do minorities here hesitate more than whites? Why do poorer people hesitate more than the affluent ones?
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  338. THIS
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  339. I heard Bill Gates was after it. Seems Epstein knew some people . . .
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  340. This is true. Are you okay with that?
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  341. I'm so sorry. How are you doing?
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  342. Sociopaths lose elections? When?
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  343.  @vannakinder352  Amen.
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  344.  @rickb3650  Where do you work where they can't be shredded?
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  345.  @dereka5037  He said legal, and explained why. The risk of being seen as destruction of evidence of illegal discrimination under federal law is one reason; having a stricter law at the state level is permissible.
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  346. You've covered this story very well. And rationally. I can exhale now.
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  347.  @KL-lt8rc  I said no such thing, and this post said no such thing. You keep making up some other person, and attacking that person, whoever they are. Muted. Blocked. Tootles. Spit your venom on your own time, you get the last saliva.
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  348. ALL of the same is true of the "Russia did it!" conspiracists. Russia did not make people vote for Trump. The deluded people you see interviewed at CPAC made Trump president.
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  349. It's called a gig economy for a reason. If money is the measure of value, how can anyone begrudge her?
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  350. For most of this century, in many EU countries severe harassment on the job can give rise to criminal charges. See what happened to the Orange Telecom CEO in France. Employees committed suicide, and the CEO went to prison.
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  351. Happens ALL the time. I had an anti-Hitler joke removed that had no bad words or risque imagery.
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  352. That was why very rich people would give anonymous gifts. Remember?
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  353. The people who made the decision DIDN'T die in the collapse, you tool. They might lose some money. Maybe. Tony Hayward left BP and got fabulously RICHER after the Gulf well blew. HSBC laundered drug money and was TBTF.
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  354. Why would it be common practice to use FOIA to gain access to someone else's FOIA request? I mean, that sounds to me like it needs an explanation.
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  355. Don't you see how much of this analysis applies to Russiagate? If not, consult Glenn Greenwald. This conspiracy is vastly crazier, but the Russia stuff was very lucrative, and had a strong racist element. You can always hate on Russians.
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  356. As for mental health -- call an ambulance. If they need police backup, they will determine that, and they will be on the scene, controlling the scene, FIRST. No way should police ever arrive first on the scene of a mentally ill person.
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  357. I know about this. Extremely rich people will sue over peanuts all the time. They consider it a line in the sand.
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  358. I feel nothing when white American haters die.
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  359.  @nickthompson1812  I had already decided to emigrate by 2025. I did not expect to have three or four more reasons to leave every damned day.
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  360. Okay, let's think this through -- we are forced by insurance companies to report various nonviolent incidents to police. No one should HAVE TO report a fake $20 by calling the police on the person who passed it, and could have passed it unknowingly. Insurance has to cover this without calling in armed agents of the state to take the person into custody. I feel for all the people who will be suffering guilt for the rest of their lives. Consider how the system is set up.
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  361. So Jimmy Dore was right about another one of you. That's as big a shock as dying people still opposed to vaccination. But here we are. Thank you for your divisiveness. We didn't have enough yet. Your contribution was lovely. /s
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  362. He may have good insurance. His total bill could be so large that $60,000 represents less than 10%. Not to mention, his Social Security disability could be tiny relative to his obligations. Did everyone suddenly forget about deductibles, policies that cover only 10% of all costs, etc.? Wild.
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  363. It's because in this wildly prudish society, the word SEX makes people too uncomfortable. Gender is a euphemism for sex.
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  364. He would say you're entitled to try to persuade him, and nothing more.
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  365. I'm sorry that one more example of surveillance state overreach was buried in a story about who owned twitter and who said something stupid again. Even criminals are supposed to be protected by the Bill of Rights.
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  366.  @hayzed9491  It wasn't TO you, it was about you.
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  367. Oh! Look how this good news on vaccination was reported! https://youtu.be/zLEiniuTzsU
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  368. I totally agree. The two comments above mine prove your point, of course.
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  369.  @jeffroberts6428  I agree. I didn't mean my comment to be hostile in any way. What is a parent to do? When grade school children are already hanging out with adults with records and running away from home, every family needs some assistance. Look, I knew 14- and 15-year-old girls who were already dating men in their 20s who were dubious, including some who had been in jail. Every single one of those girls got to grow up, and every single one is living in a nice suburb right now. I am serious. We all know what made the difference, for them.
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  370.  @arnoldlueders7500  So you concede he was not pointing the gun at any person or other living thing. Thank you for admitting that.
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  371.  @arnoldlueders7500  I won't bother asking what is wrong with you. You wouldn't know, but everyone else has a decent idea.
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  372. Police are naive about set ups? Un huh. They are experts at set ups.
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  373.  @hizzlemobizzle  Russia did not make anyone president. The deluded people you see at CPAC, right here in this video, made Trump president and would do it again. MSM friends of DNC got rich pushing the Russia conspiracy.
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  374.  Joseph Norm  What do you call BIDEN?
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  375.  Joseph Norm  When comparing Trump to Biden supporters, the differences are more a matter of style.
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  376.  @stannyb3346  My least shitty option is to leave the US. In fact, I don't have another option.
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  377.  Joseph Norm  Why are you insulting people? Since when does that cause anyone to vote for your side, especially on a Lesser Evil principle? Maybe you're the false flag, secret Trump supporter. On the Internet, that is not rare.
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  378.  @KL-lt8rc  Russia was part of the reason Trump became president? And here I thought the new official talking points were Assange Did It. No, the deluded crowd you see at CPAC made Trump president. Believe it.
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  379.  Joseph Norm  Trumptard and worse about a dozen times is a compliment? I pointed out your discourse could be a false flag. Sorry you took it personally.
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  380.  Joseph Norm  False flags function exactly like this. It's the standard playbook, right here.
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  381.  Joseph Norm  I'm not interested in talking to you. This is for the benefit of others. Your nonsense persuades NO ONE to vote for a lesser evil. It makes reluctant voters more uneasy. So, what is it for?
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  382.  @KL-lt8rc  You're as hopeless as they are? Think about it. Listen to other views. Because that makes no sense.
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  383.  Joseph Norm  Anyone who can read knows what you were saying. Your vocabulary is elementary.
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  384.  @KL-lt8rc  Obviously they are susceptible to propaganda. You, for example, are highly susceptible to nonsense having a certain tone and style.
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  385.  Joseph Norm  Blocked, muted. Time waster, possible false flag.
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  386.  @KL-lt8rc  You know, I shouldn't be doing this. It's just a bad habit on my part, started during the COVID shutdown last year. Trying to talk to people who lack a certain literary culture can never work. But just this once, and never again, I will spell it out: yes, I do believe people are susceptible to propaganda. YOU are a perfect example. It has an effect on you. Trump propaganda won't appeal to you, but, for example, Maddow's propaganda will, no matter how many of her claims are proven to be FALSE, and no matter that her own lawyers asserted in court, on the record, that Maddow never defamed anyone BECAUSE no reasonable person would ever believe that she was asserting facts. She is an entertainer, a polemicist. Her show, and all the other "the Russians did it!!!" nonsense, is propaganda you believe. That is because its tone and style appeal to you. It makes you feel smart. So, yes, obviously, propaganda does have an effect. You are Exhibit A.
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  387.  @KL-lt8rc  Because it is NOT a fact that Russia helped Trump get elected. It is a meme broadcast and very nicely monetized by Maddow and her ilk. I didn't accuse you of watching her in particular. You don't have to watch a particular purveyor of a given propaganda narrative, or, in this case the leading one, to be influenced by them. Next time, don't start out by suggesting someone's English is flawed and you might not end up being embarrassed by them. Think about what you're saying: there is absolutely no proof that "Russia helped Trump get elected," some of the finest journalists have systematically and thoroughly debunked particular stories to that effect, it has become the go-to smear, and it requires believing that millions of Americans were hopelessly duped, WHILE THE OBAMA ADMINISTRATION looked on with its hands folded. At best, a person could say it is not impossible, and suspend judgment. But you insist it happened, and that someone who doesn't agree is triggered, or something. Sorry, that is pathetic. Don't look now, but your country is close to unlivable. If I had younger generations here, I would not be sanguine.
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  388.  @KL-lt8rc  Oh, me, a Trump supporter? Please consult the Ash Sarkar video that went viral! 😅 You really insist on proving a lack of brains. Your Russia smear is as accurate as your Trump smear. Trump is a real home grown product of the USA. Everyone else is horrified.
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  389.  @KL-lt8rc  Accusing me of being a Trump supporter is a classic Maddow move. So she has your brain whether you watch or not. What do you think propaganda does?
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  390.  Joseph Norm  My bubble? I avoid news broadcast in English. The rewards for lying are too great. $$$$$ What is incentivized, multiplies.
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  391.  Joseph Norm  You spoke to Putin?
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  392. That wasn't mean enough. Try harder. Jump when this lapdog tells you to jump.
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  393. Podcaster foments more divisiveness. You comply because you are Smart.
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  394. Not what happened. OH WELL. I'm not going to be living here much longer, so if you don't care about surveillance overreach, it sure makes no diff to me.
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  395. So, these are Trumptards, eh? Why do so many countries -- France, Germany, Russia, Japan -- have more vaccine hesitancy than the US does?
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  396. Actually, the vaccination release form that every person who goes in to be vaccinated is given tells you that after reading it, you can refuse vaccination and there will be no change in the healthcare you are entitled to. It says so on the form. Look it up.
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  397.  @Nan-59  You're still in my thoughts. Take care, you, too!
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  398. I'm surprised this wasn't removed. When I mentioned that an anti-Hit ler post I made, not equivocal, not obscene, was re moved, that post was immediately re moved. LOL
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  399. Mean (or average) is informative only when you have a normal distribution. Otherwise, it's almost always misleading.
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  400.  @bobthomas6846  That's the idea of this segment. You produced the right reaction quick. Good job!
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  401.  @xyzsame4081  I agree with this. The delta variant originated in India. In this context, to pretend that American anti-vaxxers are an issue verges on the ridiculous. The American ruling class who refuse to lift patent protection and ramp up production, and cooperate with ALL other countries, in a pandemic are the problem. Mexico, just next door, has licensed SIX vaccines, with all three technologies available. Do we even have information on the two Chinese vaccines, which are technologically similar to a standard flu shot? Has Sputnik V caused blood clots like Astra-Zeneca or J & J? Start asking real questions, see if you can get answers. Or, let's hate on these sick people. That's always an option. I can't believe how easy it is to manipulate people. It is weird. Media can make people believe anything it wants. (Spelling edit. Hate typos, ugh.)
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  402.  @bobthomas6846  Of course. This segment is devised to make you furious with the man depicted. (You don't even ask how and why a camera crew was admitted to a hospital, where confidentiality rules are strict. You don't even wonder about that part.) You are supposed to have contempt for him, and blame him. You're not supposed to wonder why India, which as we found out in March 2020 is an essential supplier of medicine to the US, does not have the vaccines it needs. You're not supposed to ask why other countries, including Mexico just to the south, have a wider choice of vaccines than the US. You're supposed to sign that you read the EUA consent forms and fact sheet without reading them. You're not supposed to know what full FDA approval is, or why it matters. (Hint: $$$ access to the 1986 compensation fund for injury) You went straight to saying you hope these morons die, and you GOT THE MOST LIKES!! No argument there, you won. I offered everyone I know who lives alone to go with them to get their shot, and to check in on them. Did you?
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  403.  @bobthomas6846  I'm very confident because I put in the very hard work to build the mind I have. This is how minds are built. If you were told differently, you were misled. (Also, it's never too late. Find out the life story of Hokusai.)
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  404.  @Drew7s  Didn't see this, already have you blocked. Will keep it that way. If YOU still don't see that our political leaders and economic overlords who have real power have NOT mobilized to deal with this pandemic (any more than they have to deal with climate change, the unprecedented and ever growing gap between rich and poor and the fragilized global economy, etc.), and instead you obediently blame individuals for their choices, then nothing will persuade you. Black, brown, and poor people are disproportionately unvaccinated. Trump and his family got their shots long ago. Why do you think that happened?
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  405.  @Drew7s  Never said it would have. The poor guidance on the real need for masks, and the stigmatization of masks by all the players -- including, now, the CDC and various neolibs -- has been a crime.
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  406.  @Drew7s  Look how THIS good vaccine news was reported: https://youtu.be/zLEiniuTzsU
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  407.  @bobthomas6846  BTW, I support fast-track FDA approval. That simply means a close analysis of data and an inspection of facilities. There is no reason to delay it. Well, except that there is no reason for people injured by an *approved* vaccine to be denied compensation under the comprehensive program put in place in 1986. Follow the money . . .
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  408.  @Drew7s  DUH.
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  409.  @Drew7s  What led to the deaths of people across Europe? Especially in countries where vaccination is high? Are the current statistics on pandemic disease and death in China accurate? IF so, how have they stemmed the tide? Can we adopt some of their measures? Can we learn, and share?
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  410.  @Drew7s  Watch the PBS video I posted, then get back to me. It's short.
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  411.  @bobthomas6846  Do whatever you want. Wishing death on others will . . . probably come out exactly as you (say you) want it to. But it won't get people to vaccinate. Your personal struggles are your personal struggles. They are not a basis for adopting political policies. This attitude is an example of the new right to narcissism. I don't know why you support a YouTuber who heaps scorn on the kinds of people you find in your community, and perhaps in your own family. You should resent him, not me. He is not helping. I never allow anyone to disrespect my family or belittle them, no matter what, and I'm telling you to take a deep breath and rethink this. Don't emerge from the pandemic worse than you were. No reason to.
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  412.  @bobthomas6846  I don't care what you think of me. The United States is not my real home. As is obvious.
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  413.  @bobthomas6846  Who said anything about MY vaccine status? You're as ideological as the man in the video.
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  414.  @bobthomas6846  Anyone who feeds this narrative, and makes money on it, IS part of the problem. David is in Canada, and needn't worry about health care and disability. He can pontificate to his heart's content. "Get real." Pfft.
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  415.  @bobthomas6846  I offered everyone I know who lives alone to go with them to get their shot, and to check in on them. Did you? If not, then I guess you didn't care for the lives of others in the most reasonable way.
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  416.  Trump Felonius  Joined August 1 to offer us this? I love how this crisis heightened our sense of reverence for life. /s
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  417.  Trump Felonius  You're the one wishing death on others. What's that about? Did you fail to read my second line? (I happened to like PCF, but that's neither here nor there.)
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  418.  Trump Felonius  From now on, I report every post that expressly wishes death, on anybody. Period.
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  419.  Trump Felonius  "I love how this crisis heightened our sense of reverence for life. /s"
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  420.  Trump Felonius  Also, blocked.
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  421.  Trump Felonius  Yes I did, LOL. Is your first name your hero, too?
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  422. Do you have an opportunity to leave the US?
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  423. THANK YOU. This time, the story is not about dumb memes/tweets.
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  424. Why aren't people seeing this?
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  425.  @woodstream6137  I didn't know this was legal under ACA!
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  426. Her testimony is hearsay. Its sole value at present is to point to who has firsthand knowledge of these events. Her testimony supports a subpoena for each of those people, who told her they witnessed what Trump said and did for themselves. She wasn't there.
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  427.  @t.dmytryshyn2615  The agents who she testified told her what happened need to be subpoenaed immediately. Let's see whether they are.
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  428.  Jordan Powell  Ask Oscar Lafontaine and Tariq Ali what happened in Yugoslavia. Among others, who actually know.
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  429. Yes, great point.
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  430.  Jordan Powell  None of your business. Pfft. Nice try. If you served there in a NATO action, then you must know what was done: depleted uranium raining down on cities with ANTI-Milosevic governments in place. But don't consult the sources I named. Of course not.
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  431. So no Senator but Manchin believes vile actions should have consequences?
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  432. A slime like him is a savior? How? HOW???
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  433. He just addresssed that again.
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  434. @lindanorris2455  Judges have absolute immunity for judicial acts.
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  435. @christheghostwriter  You could have said judges have absolute immunity for judicial acts. No, wait. You couldn't. 🤣
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  436.  @KL-lt8rc  Is that how you've approached this? Is that what this video commentary leads one to believe? No one suggested it was a protected status. I suggest the video is MISLEADING about WHY we still have so many unvaccinated people. Misleading, and profoundly unhelpful. Simply designed to get the hate going, as you can see for yourself. I unsubscribed.
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  437.  @KL-lt8rc  Look at the comments for yourself.
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  438.  @KL-lt8rc  You're the only person talking about "protected status," whatever that's supposed to mean. The REASONS why there are so many unvaccinated are not as simplistic as you (or this David guy) insist on making them out to be. Lower income people are also markedly less likely than the affluent to have been vaccinated. But hate on. You know you want to. At least David gets paid. Do you?
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  439.  @KL-lt8rc  For every person I know who lives alone, when they told me they were going to get vaccinated, I offered to come with them. How about you?
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  440.  @KL-lt8rc  Well, people from other cultures are more social and collectivist. I already knew you don't think about other people. You just like to hit them with invective.
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  441.  @KL-lt8rc  You must never get laid.
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  442.  @KL-lt8rc  Said none of the above. The reasons hesitant people are hesitant are many and varied. THAT is what I said. These patients are not representative by any stretch. They are being featured for some other reason.
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  443.  @KL-lt8rc  I'm planning to emigrate. Decided in 2019, I'm proud to say. What you consider "babbling," most consider wisdom and character. OH WELL.
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  444.  @KL-lt8rc  All of my family is in Europe. The American branch died out. I'm trilingual. My best years were outside the States, of course. It comes as no surprise to me that diversity is merely a slogan to you, which elicits not a thought but a tropism. You don't even see the people in your own country, or know them. In my city, the nonvaccinated are concentrated in the poorest neighborhoods, and are POC. That's true in most cities. And yeah, I did offer to go with people to get their shot, and to check in on them. Of course you didn't. I knew that. Tell me something new.
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  445.  @KL-lt8rc  It's spelled "Shangri-La."
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  446. For every person I know who lives alone, when they told me they were going to get vaccinated, I offered to come with them. How about you?
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  447.  @fchiarel  A brain surgery could easily reach a million dollars, leaving the insured patient with a $60,000 bill. Deductibles, 10% of hospital fees, 10 to 20% of doctors' fees, and so forth, can add up to that. ER may be covered in full, all expenses above a certain limit ($500,000 to $1,000,000, depending) may also be covered in full, but all of that can still leave an insured person, who now cannot work, with a large bill. To get full compensation, he will have to sue.
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  448.  @estlee1583  He might have good insurance. $60,000 is only 6% of a million, and if he had brain surgery, the intensive care alone will top $60,000, nevermind the operation. Paying 6% of what's billed is good insurance
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  449.  @nootnewt3  So you think $60k covers brain surgery, and all hospital expenses as well? Well, I guess that explains why we have the politics we do.
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  450. He's pushing hate at minorities and doesn't realize it. A lot of the haters realize it, though, and jump at the chance. David is Canadian and fails to appreciate the diversity of regions and peoples in the U.S., diversity in every sense of the word.
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  451. That's the hard right mantra.
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  452. Link?
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  453.  @metalhead9061  Evidence?
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  454.  @bearislandthuglife3463  I saw her rapid critique of Gabbard's position on drone use. It was outstanding, and delivered with no hesitation. This is obviously a police-the-populist-left, sheepdog channel. Iversen said herself she was fully vaccinated and never told anyone not to be vaccinated. The way any reasoned discussion surrounding the issue has been vilified and suppressed has created unwarranted vaccine skepticism. Sadly. I'm not sure any more that it's not deliberate.
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  455.  @metalhead9061  I watch her all the time. I don't know what you're referring to. On The Hill Rising, her "lane" is the non-DNC left. I see her and Ryan Grim agree on more than her and Robby. Did you see her criticism of Gabbard? Very thorough, delivered before testing the waters.
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  456.  @metalhead9061  Did you see Glenn Greenwald's recent video with a critic he invited to thrash out these sorts of points? Watch that instead of this. Or better yet, watch a math and logic puzzle channel narrated by someone from Asia. Sharpen your mind. This crap from the Five Eyes can't help you.
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  457.  @metalhead9061  The neoliberal elitist allies of the new oligarchs WILL push ordinary working people to fascism at the rate they're going. Don't you see that?
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  458.  @metalhead9061  I'm not falling for anything. I get my news in three languages. You may be the one falling for the latest frenzy of personal denunciation instead of looking at larger patterns. But looking at larger patterns is vastly more frightening. So tell yourself we just need to "get rid" of a few "bad apples." Good luck with that, you will need it.
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  459.  @metalhead9061  Logic puzzles from India. Listen to me on this. I'm not joking, either. Not one bit. And good literature, preferably Russian. It's a start. You'll remember this exchange one day.
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  460. Has anyone ever done a controlled study, comparing kids who play video games with a group that doesn't play video games at all? Where would you find them? And would they be so odd by comparison to everyone else as to make the results impossible to generalize from? Saying video games do or don't desensitize people to violence makes no sense. When you point to all the kids who play video games and never commit violence, it is comparable to pointing to all the young black men who are not shot to death during a police encounter. It tells you nothing either way.
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  461. Wait. I thought Alaska was in Russia.
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  462. Do you REALLY not understand? People of color within the Democrat counties are also less likely to be vaccinated. Even PhDs have a group of sceptics. It's correlated with alienation.
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  463. The release form you sign to get vaccinated states that you may refuse vaccination after reading it, and there will be NO CHANGE in your standard of care. If you're vaccinated, you must have read that form, right?
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  464. Wait, when you meet someone, you FIRST talk about COVID? You ask about vaccines or tests? You think that isn't boorish? I thought Carlson had a point. This has nothing to do with downplaying it. Carlson is horrid FOR OTHER REASONS. The oldest person I talk to regularly is 80 years old, takes a walk every day, and refuses to talk about any health matters. She's African-American, by the way.
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  465. Where First Amendment protected free speech is concerned? No, intent does not matter. For example, if you repost revenge porn ostensibly to show how terrible it is, or you issue what any objective person would identify as a genuine threat and claim you were just kidding, and posted it to show how ridiculous it is, your avowed intent does not matter. Even if true, it does not matter.
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  466. "Rational" National unleashes hate fest. Isn't that special?
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  467. That low? Where did you find this??
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  468.  @TheCommuted  I found some stuff at the Federal Reserve Board. Even the median at age 65 is horrible. How will these people live?
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  469. When did Canada take Alaska from Russia? Was this because of Navalny?
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  470. Do you not realize that this election was a statistical anomaly because of COVID? ALL of the above is more than possible. It happened.
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  471.  @isthatyoursomnomnom  An apology? No. That never happens.
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  472.  @cruzintheraw  Oh! You've never read a First Amendment case, either! But you want to see objectively innocent Americans locked up. That's sweet.
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  473. @TheCaptainSlappy  You mean, all the intelligent posts are from Russians? So, it's not just health care that's in shambles. Education, too. Just kidding. Educated Americans exist. Believe it.
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  474. Have you read Chemerinsky on free speech on campus? There is NO doubt that Chemerinsky is left.
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  475. Actually, the vaccination release form that every person who goes in to be vaccinated is given tells you that after reading it, you can refuse vaccination and there will be no change in the healthcare you are entitled to. It says so on the form. Look it up.
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  476.  @Hayanomie  General Zhukov. He and others had to get around Stalin. But preserving Bukharin's papers was something perplexing, and did set Stalin apart from the Nazis. Nazis had book bonfires after all.
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  477.  @jayclark2077  Court is open in America. And judges enjoy absolute immunity for their judicial acts. Something worse than a mere mistake of law has to happen for them to be removed from the bench, but in states where they are elected, you can challenge them in the next election.
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  478.  @midwestlawyer  Her mind. The judge is a woman.
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  479. @midwestlawyer  Now that it is crystal clear that she was merely rude, and not threatening anyone, why doesn't BCBS ask that charges be dropped? Not only do they corrupt the politicians, they also waste our tax dollars -- on this. Lovely.
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  480.  @JP_Names  💯
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  481. @stanallport6746  🤣🤣🤣
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  482. @elisedemerveilles3065  Because the evidence is unequivocal: her words were sheer hyperbole and political speech. INFORM YOURSELF on just how bad speech and expression of this nature can be, and still be First Amendment protected.
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  483. @suek.3448  We know what she said -- the whole statement. YOU don't know First Amendment law. I guarantee you do not. The media has you clutching your pearls about "hate speech," which is not a legal category of unprotected speech. Not at all. You are the one who was fooled by the media.
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  484. @debbiesittard7653  Having to work overtime to counter all the snowflake nonsense.
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  485. @suek.3448  Of course we know her whole statement, and you are flat-out wrong. Maybe correct statements of free speech law are getting disappeared again.
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  486.  @midwestlawyer  Those who know the law and the facts -- censored again. :/
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  487. Only he went to shoot up his school? Where ya been? No, we'd have to compare a huge number of players and non-players, to see if there is any statistically significant correlation. I doubt we could find groups large enough to conclude anything.
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  488.  @Yoshimatsu414  "Only he went to go shoot up a school" isn't scientific evidence of no correlation. School shootings are relatively rare. You would need to find very large groups of young people who do and do not play video games and then follow them. I'm not saying video games are correlated with violence in any way. I'm saying your observation is not the methodology for determining whether any correlation exists, and in any case you have to start with a null hypothesis and see if there is evidence to contradict it.
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  489.  @Yoshimatsu414  Anyway, we have lots of school shootings. A school by me just went on lockdown the other day when guns were discovered. No one was hurt.
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  490. That went away when the price tag for a semester in-state topped $2500. College tuition was something you could pay for by working 40 hrs per week mid-May through August.
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  491. THANK YOU
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  492. Best comment here. Of COURSE.
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  493. So the Japanese don't have time now for reading, math, and piano or violin? Hmm . . .
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  494.  @corujariousa  My comment took issue with the claimed fact. I simply don't believe Japanese kids are playing tons of video games. They get more intense supervision, particularly from their mothers, and pressure to excel in school and music than American kids do. The two are not consistent, given that everyone's day is 24 hours.
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  495.  @jeeither  Exactly. He's common. Charity is acceptable only where it is purely a choice.
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  496. Actually, the vaccination release form that every person who goes in to be vaccinated is given tells you that after reading it, you can refuse vaccination and there will be no change in the healthcare you are entitled to. It says so on the form. Look it up. If you really are vaccinated, then you have the form, COME TO THINK OF IT.
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  497.  @USSAnimeNCC-  Do we have to politicize everything? We all bleed red.
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  498. Don't mention Greenwald's seminal books on civil liberties and the coddling of the ultrarich. Don't mention that he published all of the materials concerning Hunter Biden, who HAS had an international role because of who he is. It's not like he only paints. Did you mention Greenwald's role in freeing Lula? Did you read any of this? With Liberty and Justice For Some? Ring a bell?
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  499. But what does it matter that Carlson is a slime? If you're not in the US, you may not know that we once had a real Fourth Amendment and a real First Amendment, and due process. It's no longer evident. Even a Ted Bundy was supposed to have civil rights.
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  500. Of course lying simpliciter is protected speech. Lying to defraud people, or to foment a riot, or to defame someone, or in furtherance of criminal conspiracy, etc., is not protected speech.
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  501.  @karenfitzpatrick6256  Not unfortunate at all. Read Nadine Strossen on hate speech.
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  502.  @karenfitzpatrick6256  NO, the founders of the country were not stupid. They knew people lied. They fought a war for independence and had to deal with turncoats and spies.
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