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

  1. That's the hard right mantra.
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  2. Link?
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  3.  @metalhead9061  Evidence?
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  4.  @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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  5.  @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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  6.  @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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  7.  @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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  8.  @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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  9.  @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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  10. 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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  11. Wait. I thought Alaska was in Russia.
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  12. 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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  13. 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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  14. 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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  15. 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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  16. "Rational" National unleashes hate fest. Isn't that special?
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  17. That low? Where did you find this??
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  18.  @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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  19. When did Canada take Alaska from Russia? Was this because of Navalny?
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  20. 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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  21.  @isthatyoursomnomnom  An apology? No. That never happens.
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  22.  @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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  23. @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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  24. Have you read Chemerinsky on free speech on campus? There is NO doubt that Chemerinsky is left.
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  25. 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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  26.  @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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  27.  @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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  28.  @midwestlawyer  Her mind. The judge is a woman.
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  29. @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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  30.  @JP_Names  💯
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  31. @stanallport6746  🤣🤣🤣
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  32. @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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  33. @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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  34. @debbiesittard7653  Having to work overtime to counter all the snowflake nonsense.
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  35. @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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  36.  @midwestlawyer  Those who know the law and the facts -- censored again. :/
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  37. 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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  38.  @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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  39.  @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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  40. 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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  41. THANK YOU
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  42. Best comment here. Of COURSE.
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  43. So the Japanese don't have time now for reading, math, and piano or violin? Hmm . . .
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  44.  @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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  45.  @jeeither  Exactly. He's common. Charity is acceptable only where it is purely a choice.
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  46. 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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  47.  @USSAnimeNCC-  Do we have to politicize everything? We all bleed red.
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  48. 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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  49. 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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  50. 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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