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Comments by "L.W. Paradis" (@l.w.paradis2108) on "The Re-Education of Jordan Peterson: Why His Clinical Psychology License is Under Threat" video.

@@jassasingh9880 I used to think that. Then the meth labs invaded the lovely small towns all over the US. I shudder to think what opioids have done, to the once wonderful places. As for Canada, I could never get in, and it's too cold anyway, and with strange politics now, that I cannot comprehend. Anyway, thank you so much! Where my family lives has the same weather as Rome! :) I lived in Paris, and the quality of life was lower there, than where I plan to go. The world has become very strange. I would never have predicted the last three years, not by any stretch, not ever.
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And I would give anything to have been able to grow up there. The US never bombed where your family is, I'm guessing.
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@@jassasingh9880 I'm moving there by 2025. Are you kidding me? I can hardly wait. I wish I had grown up there. I decline to give the country at this point. It's relatively little, and it is westernized, that much I will grant you.
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@BrotherAlpha Exactly. I knew how to get your goat. No, there is no reason for mandates, except for pharmaceutical profits. There was and still is a reason for LIFTING ALL PATENTS, however. (The Mediterranean is emotionally warmer, with a LONG tradition of intelligence, too.) "Things" like me, huh?
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@BrotherAlpha And how many boosters should be mandatory, too?
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@BrotherAlpha First of all, what is your source? Was a multivariate analysis performed? Second, why would such a miracle drug require mandating? That doesn't even make sense. Everyone would want it, wouldn't they? You simply have to persuade them. That shouldn't be difficult. Third, why would European countries known for exceptional infant, childhood and teenage health, such as Denmark, Norway, Sweden, Switzerland, and others of the same caliber in health care, not be recommending the vaccine for young people, and holding off on boosters for those under 50? Why would they do that? (My source is their ministries of health, all of which have pages in English in addition to their languages.) Why would France outlaw mandates for minors? Not rescind, but make it illegal to ask a minor about vaccine status or proof of vaccination? Fourth, why would a recently published German study show that at least 20% of unexpected deaths at home may be associated with heart damage not from illness but from the vaccine? How could that happen? Fifth, why were my relatives in Europe advised not to get boosters? What new information prompted that advice from their (highly qualified) doctors? One of them is 72. A reason for mandates is always to protect others. We assume that normal, competent adults will want to protect themselves. The vaccines do NOT protect others. We know that now. We also know we were actively misled into believing they did. The statistic you cited -- are you sure it doesn't pertain to the childhood measles vaccine? The measles vaccine is known to reduce all-cause mortality. Live attenuated vaccines are the ones that are most likely to show that effect. Look at all these inhuman people, who "don't matter." A human person such as yourself must be lonely by now. How do you stand it? WOW am I glad I can get out of the West. Thank gawd for the language barrier, too. P. S. Does Novak Djokovic count?🤣
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No you would not. No one makes that choice. The US is too dangerous now. There was a time when a person with an artistic or philosophical bent could choose to live modestly, and still have access to the advantages of urban life. That ended by the early 1980s, and the writing was on the wall before that.
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@cole9058 "cope?" What did you used to say before that word became trendy? The only one seething is Peterson.
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@BrotherAlpha You don't like la France Insoumise? and NUPES? I even like PCF. One of their leaders was the first person I ever heard to come out against mandates for first responders and health care workers in France, and to treat them with dignity after they risked their lives to take care of everyone in 2020. His speech was never translated. You all study French up there, right? /s
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@BrotherAlpha I just research your claim concerning all-cause mortality, which was easy to do. Needless to say, it has been seriously called into question. That may be why the government enthusiasm for coercion has declined so greatly all around the world. So, you are aggressing against others without even bothering to check your information, much less control yourself? Typical for the last few years. Sorry you're so scared about having taken it.
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@reddwood4971 That was not well said. When you lose count how many times a person says "THEY" in a short text, you need to pause. There is something going on that is not sensible or sound.
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 @BrotherAlpha P. S. Does Novak Djokovic count?🤣 Wanted to get that in, in case the rational stuff is shadow banned, as usual.
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@darylhudson777 I am a lawyer who worked for the federal courts. I am not tempted. My closest relatives were in Europe for most of my life. My surprise was how much better they lived than we did. Shock doesn't begin to describe. I have a foreign diploma, too. But I would never qualify for Canada, even being a small part French and educated in France. I knew that. They closed a long time ago. They did not want American retirees in particular, or anyone who could not work for a decade. It galls me, my father and mother's only brother were both British Army veterans, WWII. You would think I could live in Canada if I qualified otherwise. Well . . . Wow, your last DWI a generation ago, you naughty naughty boy. So, people born that day could legally drink during most of the pandemic. (I'm assuming you aren't getting away with it better. It is a bad idea for all concerned.) Here, that is a trivial record. You could probably get it expunged. $$
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@rollitup419 I've lived here most of my life. I think I know. Every member of my family worked for someone who committed Enron-style crimes. Once you open the conversation, a lot of people will admit that. But no one will go first. People are forced to lie too much to live.
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@annamineer2521 A lot of people do that. They still have to have means. They don't live in anything close to a "hut." Only money buys security. The lovely small towns in my state were ravaged by methamphetamine over a generation ago. It spread like wildfire. I will never forget the map as labs were uncovered and marked in red. Within a decade, most of the state was red. One farmer was falsely convicted of murdering his parents, and sat on death row for over a year before being exonerated. A motorcycle gang selling meth did it, and he found them. There used to be choices. How is a person to know that what is quiet today won't succumb to drugs or gangs of some sort tomorrow? I still remember when old friends from high school were urging me to move to Portland, Oregon. They swore I'd like it. OMG.
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Socrates? Oh please, don't go there.
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@Chinsanity23 Anyone who is actually well-read in philosophy is unimpressed. But saying that is not supporting censorship. I have no idea why they are after Peterson. It is ludicrous. My advanced philosophy degree is from Paris IV, by the way. Back in the late '80s.
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@tripe2237 Well, in the US under the First Amendment, it is unlikely this conduct could be disciplined in any way, and I agree with free speech (see Nadine Strossen and Erwin Chermerinsky). On the other hand, you give great reasons why this man should not be listened to. I feel more and more sorry for him, frankly. HE is not well. "JP creates chaos and mental distress in his fans and detractors alike. Read these comments and tell me he doesn't. He's doing it in this video!" Assuming that is true, my response would be, so what? In the US, that is no reason to curtail anyone's freedom of speech and expression, and at the rate things are going, the US won't have that one civil right, the only one that truly sets the country apart, for much longer. All someone has to do to discredit nearly any demonstration is bring a swastika, and there are people who won't see through it -- they will be afraid to ask who brought the swastika and to what purpose. This is a bigger problem than any of Peterson's insipid grievance mongering. He doesn't see patients anyway. I wouldn't advise going after him in this manner. It creates another pseudo martyr. Some of the stuff they have cited him for is frankly nutty.
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@pc2555 I sincerely hope you will do some reading on the psychological processes that impel a person to scapegoat an "other." Print out what you wrote, underline every time you wrote "THEY" in capital letters, put it away for a week, and then discuss it with someone with some wisdom, or expertise, or clinical background, or deep knowledge of history, etc.
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@sliceoflife5812 Wow, look at how many people make up a character in their minds, and then argue with that character. For the record, I declined vaccination. I declined, because my concerns were never addressed, and were unlikely ever to be addressed -- that simple. Plenty of people sympathized with the convoy and saw that it was being unfairly maligned. You are trying to over-politicize a basic demand for civil liberties, which most people agree with once they've calmed down, rejected the fear-mongering, and tuned out the din.
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@tripe2237 Yes, it would, actually. Every government entity in the US is subject to the First Amendment prohibition on curtailing protected speech and expression. People who were members of a neo-Nazi outfit who were declined a law license on that basis got the order rescinded.
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@tripe2237 Whether it would be unethical in an experimental setting is exactly what is irrelevant to free speech, as long as he takes no steps to require anyone to listen -- as he might if he were spouting some of this stuff in a clinical setting rather than on the Internet. You don't understand the standard, if this is what you think it means.
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@tripe2237 I don't support the man, by the way. I support free speech. See, e.g., Nadine Strossen. Erwin Chemerinsky. I don't go quite as far as they do in supporting free speech, and the latter is definitely left wing. (I am probably farther left, though.)
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@pc2555 I did not make an argument in response to your post. I made a suggestion in response to your post. The arguments I did make were in favor of free speech and against censoring Peterson, whom I have grown to pity most of the time. There was nothing ridiculous about my suggestion, nor about my free speech argument. No, there is not a single, specific group of people "causing a problem for all of society." Speaking of the Nazi party is odd in this context, as an example of a group that caused problems; one of the reasons they caused problems -- indeed, one of their chief symptoms -- was their obsessive conviction, verging on hysteria, that there was "a specific group of people causing a problem for all of society."
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@tripe2237 But that is exactly my point. Peterson is not treating patients. He has no captive audience, no persons dependent on him for their psychological well being, and only a fan club that would do well to find a different person to take advice from -- but they are all adults, they are not presumed to be vulnerable, or to be consulting him from a position of vulnerability. Trying to yank his license is giving him exactly the publicity he craves, so that he can go on the largest platforms in North America with his grievances. The only time it would be sensible to do yank his license would be when it actually is imperative to protect PATIENTS. But he no longer sees patients. And unless he is lying, actual patients did not complain. (Lying about the proceeding against him would be something they could take into account, however.) Having a license to practice psychology isn't an endorsement of his political views. And in the US, a lawyer can state that he supports eugenics without having his license lifted. What he can't do is demonstrate that he has contempt for his oath to support and defend the Constitution. Pretending that eugenics is the law and inducing people who come to him for advice to believe that it is the law, and that the 14th Amendment permits it, would be grounds for disbarment.
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@tripe2237 Actually, there are "sovereign citizen lawyers," and they have lawyers to represent them, too. They just know better than to spout their nonsense in court as if it were the law. But there is no law to prevent them from claiming their views to be "aspirational." Good grief, the Chicago mob had lawyers. Maybe the US is crazier than most people want for a way of life. I can relate.
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@tripe2237 The ABA is a private advocacy organization. Membership is entirely voluntary. It has no power to license attorneys. State bars -- technically, state supreme courts -- do that.
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@tripe2237 Please explain in what sense his license to practice psychology is an "endorsement" of his popular social media nonsense by the licensing board. I would say it is no more an endorsement of his tweets than it is of his decision to go to Russia (!) to be placed in a coma (!!!) to overcome his toxic reaction and dependency on benzodiazepines -- or to take them in the first place. This is one sad case.
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@pc2555 That wasn't what I said but that's what you got out of it. Okay, now I know not to address comments to you. No problem.
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@pc2555 Maybe if you had taken up my suggestion it might have caused you to reflect, and waste less time and energy on unproductive stuff, and on people you don't need to worry about so much. Maybe I should fashion some version of the same advice for myself.
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@cole9058 Not sure what you're talking about, probably some new trendy word. LOL, I grew up working class, and went to inner city public schools, K through 12, and didn't speak English to my parents. Who is "you people?" I don't live in the fantasy world you inhabit, that's for sure. Oh, is ages like, a whole year for you?
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@cole9058 I don't see one other person who is not a Peterson fan but opposes this assault on his freedom of speech. It's both wrong in principle and pragmatically misguided. It's why he got to go back on Joe Rogan to pretend to be a victim of galloping Maoism. People are replying, and getting censored, for no good reason that I can detect. You must be new to this game.
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@pc2555 I no longer care. Sorry. People who have had even a smattering of legal reasoning understand me: a may or may not be the case; for the sake of argument, assume a. b may or may not be the case; likewise assume b. Concede a and b both; that still doesn't justify c. I've just summarized for you 90% of legal briefs.
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@pc2555 I'm an outstanding communicator. That wasn't the problem here. You don't like what I've said is all.
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@pc2555 You're just used to categorizing people, instead of understanding their arguments. The former is easier, hence basic free market utilitarian logic tells you to do it.
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@pc2555 I may have mixed you up with someone else. All of this is starting to sound alike. I apologize. In any case, I support free speech. I do not like Peterson, but I have compassion for his issues. Am I on the right thread now? sigh
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@pc2555 I think I mixed this up with the "Keenan Anderson deserved what he got" thread. Yeah, it does all start to meld into one big amalgam.
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@pc2555 That was well said -- it is the barest minimum.
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@johnlotz7341 Even death doesn't make me cry. You are supposed to say I'm without feelings, remember? You don't have your Russkie talking points in order -- yet?
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@martijnvangammeren1868 Which part of Paris? My classmates at Paris IV lived in fifth-floor walk-up cold water flats with the toilet down the hall, shared with two other apartments. This was all over the city. Not Avenue Foch, no, but we are talking about university students. They were not impoverished.
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@johnlotz7341 Some people like marijuana, greed, and gender bender, some people are more into stuff like piano and sharing. Oh and gender specific, if that's still okay. I know I'll regret saying it. It's just a preference, not intended to impose on those who aren't into it.
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@DerrickRG My relatives have more freedom of speech than we do. No one wore masks except indoors in crowds during this whole time. You've never been outside the states, have you? "Enjoy your school shooter drills." See how nice that is?
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@BrotherAlpha Sorry, it looks as bad as the US with respect to vaccine misinformation = MANDATES, when there is no possible reason to have them. (By the way, France made them illegal for minors, with the actual left leading in passing the bill, not the faux left like you see in North America.) It's certainly cold compared to the Mediterranean. (Who did this survey? I should trust them?)
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@BrotherAlpha Your "information" was incorrect. It does not lower all-cause mortality at all. VERY easy to find, in highly reputable sources, including one from Canada later mentioned in the BMJ. The last time I was told I "didn't count," it was racist, so I guess this is an improvement? LOL
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@onlylexus It's not the left, it's the neoliberal ruling class globalists. The left just outlawed mandates for minors in France, last fall. Macron is the globalist there.
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@vinchenta3325 South, my dear. Croatia is dull by comparison. :)
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@@jassasingh9880 I did that as a child. The people are not beautiful. I like beautiful people.
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@martijnvangammeren1868 No, these weren't student facilities at all, or student ghettos. These were people with working-class neighbors, regular families. I am surprised by the fact that a person cannot know absent direct experience. There should be more work in this world for honest journalists.
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@nono-ck5xr My cousin has a three-bedroom condominium with high ceilings and four balconies. Parquet everywhere, and doors that are soundproof, of course. She was a dental technician. I forgot what her husband did, but he was handicapped due to COPD so I'm not sure how much he earned, and he died young. Believe whatever you need to believe. I was stunned so greatly that I have no words. Only a multi-millionaire could have this in NYC, LA or even Chicago. I had to see to believe, so I understand.
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@GregoryMcStevens You haven't been there lately.
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@BrotherAlpha You are from one of those alphabet agencies, aren't you? I know the way you turned up isn't real. Everyone needs an extra buck these days, huh?
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@darylhudson777 Well, the truth is that you need some serious money to get the legal help you would need. This is something that can be bought. I hate to put it so baldly, but it is true. Something that long ago can be entirely removed from a record, with the right resources (people with knowledge and the money to pay them), and emigration can be expedited as well. :/
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@haggismacphreedom Yes, and keep in mind that all were written by people in the West. Consider the "subtext." I love all of the above, by the way. I'm glad you got to read it young, it's a real gift. It was a harsh realization to find out how much we were lied to about Eastern Europe. You will believe the OP. You will never believe me. I understand. I wouldn't either, and didn't until I saw it for myself. It has to be seen in person. To think I felt so sorry for them, and guilty for having such a "good life." I fear all I've written here could come back to haunt me, and will. If I lived there, I'd have no worries. Believe it.
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@rollitup419 I just found out my bff was raped in college. She hid it her whole life,. At this point, most of my closest friends were either raped or abused as kids. You have a very wrong view, I suspect?
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@rollitup419 Both Rogan and Peterson used drugs, and Peterson got inadvertently addicted. You know that, right? Or do you overlook that, too? Rogan has promoted people who advocate drug experimentation all the time. Missed it?
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@vinchenta3325 Still wrong.
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@haggismacphreedom You know this? How? But wait, didn't the Free Market fix all that???!
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@haggismacphreedom My relatives have a high-pressure toilet like the ones in skyscrapers, which never gets plugged up like mine does whenever the neighbors (in the separate house next door) have a party. My relatives also have a bidet, like millionaires do. Don't believe it. I wouldn't have, either; to say I was shocked does not begin to describe. But whatever you do, don't seethe about it. It looks bad. Pretend you're above all that. It's the best policy.
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@haggismacphreedom Wait a second. You read all of those tremendous books, and still make a snide remark about "Mother Russia?" Yeah, you missed a whole lot of what they said. I guess you're not a writer at heart, or it would have made a real impact on you, not just provoked an equal but opposite ideological stance, and a desire to jeer. So, your digs aren't as good as my cousin's, huh? It's down to that? Of course it is. Go read all those books again.
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@haggismacphreedom My obvious point was that ALL of those books were by Westerners, who experienced totalitarianism while living in the West, not behind the Iron Curtain. That's what you obviously missed. Orwell's Homage to Catalonia and Down and Out in Paris and London are also must-reads, as is his book on how life changed after WWI in England. I forget the name, . . . but it also describes a horrible marriage from the point of view of a husband trying his best as a subplot. Very good.
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@TrueBluZulu I have a perfect record and a California law license. You mixed me up with someone who had some trivial traffic issues a generation ago. I don't want to live in Canada. Out of the frying pan and into the fire.
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@TrueBluZulu THIS is exactly why I want to emigrate. I can't live with stupid anymore. Not like this.
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@TrueBluZulu Don't tell everyone how jealous you are. Keep it to yourself.
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@TrueBluZulu Oooo nice swearing. Moron read what I said as a confession of prior felony. If that isn't stupid. That's beyond stupid.
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@TrueBluZulu Oh, see where you got it. Watch better vids. Blocked.
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@TrueBluZulu Who's crying? Being told I was about to die didn't make me cry.
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