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

  1. 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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  2. "Pre-crime??" Oh this should be fun.
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  3. ​ @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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  4. ​ @newbieprepper8451 No she won't.
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  5.  @MrRezRising  No Supreme Court case name has swear words in it that I know of.
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  6.  @MrRezRising  Blocked for lying.
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  7. @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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  8. @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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  9. @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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  10. @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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  11.  @newbieprepper8451  This is what the snowflakes did to us. I knew this nonsense could only go south.
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  12.  @MadeOfQuestions  Wikipedia is not a treatise on contemporary First Amendment law. 🤣
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  13. This.
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  14. 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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  15. 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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  16. 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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  17. 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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  18. ​ @fabsmaster5309 And had it been up to me, I would have never been born. Thanks for asking.
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  19. If you advocate banning speech, you have to be more specific.
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  20.  @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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  21.  @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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  22.  @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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  23.  @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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  24.  @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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  25.  @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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  26.  @NumeroSystem  Then we're good.
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  27.  @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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  28. How many songs have you played on guitar?
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  29. Well? Just kidding.
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  30. ​ @Crawling-Chaos-2024 true
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  31. Imagine being afraid of Sam Seder.
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  32. "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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  33.  @Draxxuzownzu  I did, too.
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  34.  @Draxxuzownzu  Okay. You're right about the "culture" part, or lack thereof.
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  35.  @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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  36.  @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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  37.  @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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  38.  @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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  39.  @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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  40.  @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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  41.  @GotAbductedOnce  https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/community/health-equity/vaccine-equity.html
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  42.  @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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  43. 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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  44.  @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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  45. 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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  46. Let's watch and see whether it increases TRN views. That will tell you why it's here.
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  47. 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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  48. 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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  49.  @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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  50.  @rudiklein  FIRE (finance, insurance, real estate) must be served. Capital formation, yo. :)
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