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

  1.  @datonepeach  You had some to lose?
    3
  2.  @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.)
    3
  3.  @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
    3
  4.  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.
    3
  5. Oh, I know! Let's go to Mars!
    3
  6.  @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.
    3
  7. 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.
    3
  8.  @GarySpace-m3c  Absolute immunity for judicial acts.
    3
  9.  Tim Kozlowski  Ah! What a relief! So the poor cop will be fine after all. /s
    3
  10.  @Hugh_I  I like that idea.
    3
  11.  @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.
    3
  12.  @arnoldlueders7500  HE HAD HIS EMPTY HANDS UP and should have kept running, obviously.
    3
  13.  @NOLAjeanieUS  Not enough, LOL! 🌹
    3
  14.  @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.
    3
  15. I'm so sorry. How are you? This is all too much.
    3
  16. @christheghostwriter  LOL, are you L1? Haven't gotten to the section on true threats yet?
    3
  17. @christheghostwriter  Oh I see. You've never read any cases. 🤣 Of course. We see that. I was kidding about L1.
    3
  18.  @christheghostwriter  BTW, blocked.
    3
  19. @midwestlawyer  Thanks. If I name Supreme Court cases, my post is immediately removed. "Ponder that," as they say.
    3
  20. Gallows humor, huh? Kind of not . . . Never mind.
    3
  21. And . . . It's working. 😢
    2
  22.  @sugadagud3093  If you can relieve tension, do it. This is too horrible -- during a PANDEMIC, for chrissake.
    2
  23.  @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.
    2
  24.  @bretbonner  Yeah, and this podcaster jumped right in, to foment hate. I unsubscribed.
    2
  25. 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.
    2
  26. This is, unfortunately, very likely to be the case. Israel is seeing the same numbers. I agree wholeheartedly.
    2
  27.  @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?
    2
  28. @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.
    2
  29.  @hizzlemobizzle  This is a great article.
    2
  30. 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.
    2
  31. I was reading Orwell and Mark Twain. Or by 14, Dostoevsky, come to think of it.
    2
  32. Exactly. He could be a lawyer and do something about the issues he talks about, but that would be hard. Performance is easier.
    2
  33.  @MrRezRising  No. It also has to be intended as a threat.
    2
  34.  @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 . . .
    2
  35. @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.
    2
  36. @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.
    2
  37.  @jwill9237  This isn't a true threat.
    2
  38. @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?
    2
  39. @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.
    2
  40. @MrRezRising  The posters are irrelevant. They cannot make what she said illegal.
    2
  41. @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."
    2
  42. @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.
    2
  43. @smirky101  We know you aren't into reading law books, but you could at least skim the thread. Happy Sunday, lol.
    2
  44.  @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.
    2
  45.  @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 . . .
    2
  46. Did someone say "cancel?" What would that even mean??
    2
  47.  @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.
    2
  48.  @mushroomsteve  ALWAYS
    2
  49.  @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?
    2
  50.  @bigollameo  You sound like you're on a witch hunt. Politics has devolved into tribes and cults.
    2