Comments by "L.W. Paradis" (@l.w.paradis2108) on "Democracy Now!" channel.

  1. What a brilliant woman. I am truly humbled listening to her. Eloquence personified.
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  2. NEVER open the door if you are not expecting anyone. You have NO duty to open the door. Remember that. If someone is beating down your door or barking orders at you from outside your door, call the police and report them.
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  3. This horror is beyond words. Please allow me to commend Democracy Now! for bringing these stories, and for the way you are treating them. No one else is reporting on the war the way Democracy Now! is.
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  4. Please keep giving voice to Jewish and Israeli activists for peace. They have been ignored for so long, and it's heartbreaking.
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  5. People who are tortured are tortured more. People who are abused are abused more. Let's stop telling ourselves pretty stories about ourselves. Start by facing the truth.
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  6. Chris Hedges just did the finest interview of Leonard Peltier's tremendous lawyer. Peltier's life is in grave danger. YT destroyed this.
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  7. 12:19 OTHER countries BAN what we put in our food.
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  8. Will THIS be deemed "qualified immunity?" Police aren't expected to know about freedom of the press?
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  9. The Red Cross workers are the epitome of courage.
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  10. YES
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  11. No one should open the door to a claim of police being on the other side. If someone tries to break down your door and claims to be the police, call the police. You have no duty to open your door. It's YOUR door. Anyone can shout "sheriff."
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  12. Naomi Klein's world was upended? I can never retire and may need to emigrate. The pandemic was the "one more blow" I could not take.
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  13. Watching Jewish and Israeli voices for justice and peace being systematically silenced for decades has also been heartbreaking. It tears at your soul. Take care, warmest, warmest wishes to you.
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  14. Never forget who prevented a nuclear exchange: Vasili Arkhipov, and he did so singlehandedly, at a moment when he thought his own death was inevitable. The Guardian did a great piece on it.
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  15. His prior record has no bearing at all. If he was putting people in fear of serious bodily harm THIS time, then self-defense and defense of others is proper even if he were a veritable angel who took a drug this one time, or had a spontaneous psychotic break this one time. AND if not, not. Exactly why do you think his record matters? It doesn't matter any more than his deft Michael Jackson impression on previous occasions. We don't judge the "value" of alleged victims. We judge their CONDUCT. As for the family, I agree wholeheartedly with you. Their treatment of him is very relevant to the issue presented. I don't understand why they merit an interview.
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  16. "But Ukraine is a democracy."
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  17. Sandy, we will never forget you. Never.
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  18. We saw the clip. This distorts what Kennedy said, and is frankly a smear. I'd die if someone said this about me.
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  19. This execution is clearly unconstitutional. Every execution should be, but even under our horrible precedent, this is unconstitutional. She cannot appreciate why this is happening, or even what is happening. The people seeking the death penalty are the criminals.
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  20. We do not have the best universities (how self-serving). We have the universities that lead to the most lucrative careers. That's hardly the same thing.
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  21. ​@Curt-Gevert This will not be taxable income. It isn't compensation for work (except in the perpetrators' eyes). The lawyers will get 30 to 40% of the recovery, so each will get a share of what's left, around 600 to 700k. Barely enough to start over upon release, if that. But not 200k to 300k, no.
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  22. When she interviews Aaron Mate, who testified about the OPCW scandal before the UN, then we'll know Amy is back.
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  23. This took courage on Mary Trump's part.
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  24. ​ @innocentnemesis3519 He was her ideal.
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  25. His call for better labeling is a tell. We all know other countries ban what we tolerate in our food.
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  26. So Trump is closer to Jeffrey Epstein than we thought. What happened to Lisa is no big deal.
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  27. Super well-spoken lady. What should have been the very happiest time of her life . . . I am so chagrined.
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  28. @andrewcool8101  How do you know that the person banging on your door and shouting "sheriff" actually is the sheriff? Anyone can bark "sheriff." He shouldn't have opened the door at all. That he did shows consciousness of innocence and basic trust of others. He made the mistake of thinking others are upstanding because he was.
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  29. ​ @claytonhenrickson9326 Why? What reasonable suspicion was there that she was committing a crime? You don't believe in the Bill of Rights?
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  30. Is this news to anyone? SERIOUSLY? Also, no one should join the armed forces of this country. What a pity.
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  31. This is the best, and fairest, news program -- by far.
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  32. A handful of billionaires
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  33. "Greed is good." "Kindness is weakness." I wish Trump were alone in this thinking. Everything Mary describes has echoes throughout the country.
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  34. To oppose a treatment a typical side effect of which is permanent sterilization is not unreasonable. I can't believe that a society with a long, ugly history of eugenics isn't suspicious of puberty blockers in teens, just because they are not "gender-typical." So what if they aren't? Should only cheerleaders and football players have kids? That's where we are.
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  35. ​ @amirfamhi6248 The same Amendment requires Due Process, as does the Fifth Amendment.
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  36. Thanks for remembering that. No one was more ridiculed than Carter. Heartbreaking.
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  37. 5:03 THANK YOU David. The first Wednesday in November 2016 might have been a good time to get serious.
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  38. Lost nearly all my income in March 2020, sent her $100 anyway.
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  39. This happens all the time. It is hard to bear.
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  40. Levy is immensely courageous. He is so angry, I don't know how he bears it, it touches him so much and he is so determined.
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  41. Notice how Sister Helen Prejean did not make this only about Trump. Because it is larger.
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  42. "But . . . but Elon is a genius!!"
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  43. They are clearly not starving.
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  44. In their view, not nearly enough.
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  45.  @xmurshedz  From 13:05 on, Vijay is on fire. He mentions Assange about a minute after.
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  46. @LocoGeorge123  I have no problem condemning October 7. The actions of the Israeli government since then has condemned the hostages.
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  47. "Accomplices" is a mistranslation. The word means they got along extremely well.
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  48. @Jenkmode89 Excuse me, but what did you hallucinate? Also, is . . . someone a cop because they say they are? Does someone have a right to bang on your door and enter your home because someone told them something?
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  49.  @DeadKraken  The problem Westerners all have is that they can't grasp that non-Western peoples have a different view of time.
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  50. 12:12 Labeling?? Other countries BAN chemicals we put in our food.
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